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Re: Quiet in the list...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren J Moffat)
Mon Sep 8 10:22:18 2008
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:14 +0100
From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
In-reply-to: <E1KcFAu-00011v-U9@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: iang@systemics.com, netsecurity@sound-by-design.com,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> IanG <iang@systemics.com> writes:
>
>> 4. Skype. Doesn't do email, but aside from that minor character flaw, it
>> cracked everything else. It's the best example of what it should look like.
>
> The UI still leaves quite a lot to be desired. Try sitting a non-geek user in
> front of a fresh Skype install and see how long it takes them to figure out
> how to make a phonecall to (say) a Skype user name supplied via email. I've
> seen times of 15+ minutes to make the first call (OK, so I treat neighbours
> and family as UI guinea pigs :-). Skype still has a lot of fundamental
> usability flaws like the inability to remember a password (requiring it to be
> manually re-entered each time it's run unless you choose to start Skype on
> system boot) that make it a less-than-perfect example of usable security.
I don't know what OS you are running Skype on but for me on MacOS X I
never have to enter my Skype password because it is saved in the MacOS X
keyring and Skype isn't set to start at system boot (user login really)
for my account.
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Darren J Moffat
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