USEC: Lecture 1: Introduction to Usable Security and Privacy (2026)

Lecture Slides

See attached file 

Materials

• Chapter 1 - Garfinkel, Simson, and Heather Richter Lipford. Usable Security: History, Themes, and Challenges. Cham: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2014. Print.

Further Videos:

• Stanford Seminar - Conducting Usable Privacy and Security Studies: It's Complicated by Lorrie Faith Cranor
• HCI: Who are the users
• Security: CIA  Definitions

Further Reading:

• Hoyle, Roberto, et al. "Was my message read? privacy and signaling on Facebook messenger." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017.

Take-home

• (Blog) BBC News - CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
• (Blog) BBC News - WhatsApp and other messaging apps oppose 'surveillance'