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Am I the only one seeing the pattern here. Most security loop holes I have witness have existed at the cost of providing a better user experience.
by omk 7y ago
Am I the only one seeing the pattern here. Most security loop holes I have witness have existed at the cost of providing a better user experience.
- Iv 7y agoThis is the pattern of applications continuing to be deeply flawed and heavily advertised as long as you can be bought for a billion by IBM/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/TechOverlorfOfTheYear and finally get into a stable enough state so that they can be part of the infrastructure when a full-features open source version emerges.
- barrkel 7y agoThis is the security - usability tradeoff and is as old as the hills.
- davnicwil 7y agoYeah, it's a tradeoff by nature. This applies to security in general, not just computers. Having to unlock the door to your house when your hands are full with shopping is annoying, but the alternative is leaving your house unlocked all the time and trusting nobody will walk in. Depending on the context (location, is there usually someone home anyway, value of stuff within the house) you may or may not find the tradeoff makes sense and voluntarily opt for the worse 'UX'.
- melon_madness 7y agoSee also: Boeing 737 Max
- pcr0 7y agoAs in security against stalling lead to a UX disaster that caused planes to dive into the ground? I'd argue the moral of that story was to redesign the plane, instead of piling on hacks to save costs in the short run.
- melon_madness 7y agoAs I understand it, they tried to design a new plane that wouldn't require pilots to be re-trained on how to use it, if they'd already been trained on an older model. That's the UX I'm referring to.
- jonny_eh 7y agoCertainly a (bad) trade-off, but I wouldn't classify it as UX. It's more of a safety vs sales trade-off.
- tialaramex 7y agoThe fun thing is users mistakenly recognise the tradeoff as a sign of the security. If it was annoying it must be secure. Why would somebody waste my time for no purpose? See also placebo effect - of course I feel better, you gave me pills and I took them, duh, it's medicine.