Chapter 1

Introduction

Slides

Learning Outcomes

Understand

Course outline
What is Usable Security and Privacy (USEC)
How does USEC differ from Security/Privacy and Human Computer Interaction
CIAAA - definition of security
Definition of privacy

Apply

Trump’s National Security Advisor accidentally included a journalist in a Signal chat group discussing US strikes in Yemen. Explain why this is a security issue in regards to CIAAA. Don’t just stop with C, think about the other properties of security as well.

Lecture Notes: Usable Security and Privacy

Usable Security and Privacy is a field that looks at how people currently use security and privacy technologies as well as how to make those technologies more usable. USEC touches on many topic areas including: Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Law, Public Policy, Psychology, and Social Science.

Security and privacy tools that cannot be used are, well, useless. In fact they can be worse than useless because people will work very hard to circumvent the “annoying” technology potentially putting themselves in more danger.