[EROS-Arch] Re: [E-Lang] Interaction Design for End-User Security

[Seth Arnold]

* Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@imaginet.fr> [010317 15:12]:
> > >    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pingster/sec/project/
> 
> I would add it's needed to  discriminate icons as well as windows.
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> In current GUIs,  it's all too easy to masquerade  an application as a
> document  or folder  by  changing the  icon,  either the  user of  the
> application itself.

Absolutely; the success of the Melissa-alike virii are a wonderful
demonstration of the importance of this point.

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