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Why Designing for Usability and Security is Hard

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In this chapter, I summarise the challenges that make designing for usability and security hard, and outline the structure of this book.

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    Shamal Faily

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Faily, S. (2018). Why Designing for Usability and Security is Hard. In: Designing Usable and Secure Software with IRIS and CAIRIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75493-2_1

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