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 8 th 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