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Do you think there's any chance that security researchers have disregarded UX factors?

• unimpressive 14y ago
  Many, sure. All, I am doubtful of. Social Engineering is one of the key methods of introducing security vulnerabilities into an otherwise secure system. A security researcher with this in mind would have to consider UX factors at least in the context of weather or not they could confuse the user into giving away vital data. (Example: People being unable to remember complex passwords and pasting them to their monitor with sticky notes.) So usability concerns are entirely in the realm of a security model.
• DanBC 14y ago
  At the moment we're in the good situation of having good security that's hard to use, which is much better than easy to use but broken security. UX stuff comes after the security stuff is sorted out. Having pretty but useless security is worse than no security. Unfortunately there is plenty of security stuff which looks nice but which is broken. None of this is any kind of comment on OPs scheme! I'm gently worried about malicious people being able to shut down all my accounts remotely. And it's a bit disturbing that a lost phone means all my accounts are now compromised - but I guess that most people save passwords anyway. I'd like to see other people prodding at this because passwords really do suck.