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Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04
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usability.tex
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fix more this's
Index: usability.tex
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04/usability.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -d -r1.24 -r1.25
--- usability.tex 2 Jan 2005 05:14:10 -0000 1.24
+++ usability.tex 2 Jan 2005 05:40:17 -0000 1.25
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
of course. If the attacker suspects Alice, Bob, and Carol equally, Alice is
more anonymous than if the attacker is 98\% suspicious of Alice and 1\%
suspicious of Bob and Carol, even though the anonymity sets are the same
-size. Because of this, recent research is moving beyond simple anonymity
+size. Because of this imprecision, recent research is moving beyond simple anonymity
sets to more sophisticated measures based on the attacker's confidence.}
When more users join the network, existing users become more
secure, even if the new users never talk to the existing
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
we've also argued that focusing too hard on privacy over usability can hurt
privacy itself. What happens when these principles conflict?
-We encountered a situation like this when designing how the Mixminion
+We encountered such a situation when designing how the Mixminion
anonymous email network \cite{minion-design} should handle MIME-encoded
data. MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the way a mail client tells
@@ -440,8 +440,9 @@
everybody.
We've tried a few solutions that didn't work as well as we hoped. Improving
-documentation only helped the users who read it. We changed Tor to warn
-users who provided an IP address rather than a hostname, but this usually
+documentation only helped the users who read it. We changed Tor to
+warn users who provided an IP address rather than a hostname, but this
+warning usually
resulted in several email exchanges to explain DNS to the casual user, who
had typically no idea how to solve his problem.
@@ -621,7 +622,7 @@
The temptation to focus on designing a perfectly usable system before
building it can be self-defeating, since obstacles to usability are often
-unforeseen. Because of this, we believe that the anonymity community
+unforeseen. We believe that the anonymity community
needs to focus on continuing experimental deployment.
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