[freehaven-cvs] Fix on/off confusion about cookies and off switches....

[nickm@xxxxxxxx (Nick Mathewson)]

Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04
In directory moria.mit.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv8913

Modified Files:
	usability.tex 
Log Message:
Fix on/off confusion about cookies and off switches.  Also, stop implying that Angela Sasse wrote our list.

Index: usability.tex
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04/usability.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.15
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diff -u -d -r1.15 -r1.16
--- usability.tex	31 Dec 2004 17:44:22 -0000	1.15
+++ usability.tex	31 Dec 2004 18:02:14 -0000	1.16
@@ -72,14 +72,15 @@
 irrelevant.
 
 As Angela Sasse wrote in chapter X,
-hard-to-use programs and protocols can hurt security in many ways:
+hard-to-use programs and protocols can hurt security in many ways.  These
+include:
 \begin{tightlist}
 \item Programs with {\it insecure modes of operation} are bound to be used
   unknowingly in those modes.
 \item {\it Off switches}, once selected, are often never re-enabled.  For
-  example, many users who try to disable browser cookies for privacy reasons
-  wind up leaving them re-enabled so that they can access sites that require
-  them.
+  example, many users who ordinarily disable browser cookies for privacy
+  reasons wind up re-enabling them so they can access sites that require
+  cookies, and later leaving cookies enabled for all sites.
 \item {\it Badly labeled off switches} for security are even worse: not only
   are they more prone to accidental selection, but they're more vulnerable to
   social attackers who trick users into disabling their security.

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