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by petewarden 5983 days ago
The most interesting part for me was the MS security paper he linked to:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cormac/papers/...

It's a great explanation of why users are rational to ignore all our security advice; the expected benefits are so low compared to the effort required, and a lot of the costs are borne by other people anyway.