Security Day-to-day: User Strategies for Managing Security as a Practical, Everyday Problem

Trevor Maynard

Overview

➲ Lack of Focus➲ Goals ➲ Lack of Results➲ Why your 8th grade English teacher would

not accept this paper

Lack of Focus

➲ Security as an everyday matter➲ Much of what is presented is common

sense and not new● Everything from Feng Shui...

“The office layout more generally was used as a means of protecting information”

● ...to text messaging...

“The teens studied never intentionally turned off their phones...”

Lack of Focus

➲ All information presented is relevant to practical security measures

➲ However, the scope of paper is too ambitious to properly relate all discussed issues

Goals Not Met

➲ Stated goal

“to understand their [users] experience of security”

➲ The paper lists some user experiences➲ Does not give a summary of these

sentiments for reader to review

Goals Not Met

➲ Stated goal

“...to determine what questions we might want to ask.”

➲ Discussion and conclusion do little to inform the reader about how this work relates to this goal

Results?

➲ Semi-structured interviews conducted➲ Ethnographic study

➲ Only qualitative analysis of selected experienced presented.

➲ No outline of interviews provided➲ No concise presentation of any sort

Why your 8th grade English teacher would not accept this paper

➲ 5 PhD's wrote this paper....

➲ ...None bothered to proofread● The majority of pages have multiples spelling

errors● Obtuse, run-on sentence and simply bizarre

oversights

Why your 8th grade English teacher would not accept this paper

➲ Examples

Conclusion

➲ Paper's focus is lacking● Reads more like a complication of short stories

➲ No comprehensive presentation of results➲ Authors did not care enough to proofread

Conclusion

➲ If you don't vote reject....

➲ ...the terrorists win