Freezing more than bits: chilling effects of the OLPC XO security model

  • Authors:

  • Meredith L. Patterson;Len Sassaman;David Chaum

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Iowa;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Venue:
  • UPSEC'08 Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Usability, Psychology, and Security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Many secure systems rely on a "human in the loop" to perform security-critical functions. However, humans often fail in their security roles. Whenever possible, secure system designers should find ways of keeping humans out of the loop. However, there ...