[Freedombox-discuss] "Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client"
fauno
fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar
Mon Nov 9 18:28:46 UTC 2015
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:
> I find this user testing report by Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Daniel
> Zappala and Kent Seamons very interesting. Check out
> <URL: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.08555.pdf >. This is the abstract:
>
> This paper presents the results of a laboratory study involving
> Mailvelope, a modern PGP client that integrates tightly with existing
> webmail providers. In our study, we brought in pairs of participants
> and had them attempt to use Mailvelope to communicate with each
> other. Our results shown that more than a decade and a half after Why
> Johnny Can’t Encrypt, modern PGP tools are still unusable for the
> masses. We finish with a discussion of pain points encountered using
> Mailvelope, and discuss what might be done to address them in future
> PGP systems.
so... individual persons without a community helping them are unable to
use X?, shocking :D
http://www.dmytri.info/hackers-cant-solve-surveillance/
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