[Sigia-l] Gullibility engineering

[Ziya Oz]

This is further proof that we don't spend enough time here talking about
that interesting sub-domain of 'usability' issues I will hereby coin as
'gullibility engineering':

> We have just finished a study that shows how user interface design flaws allow
> users on Kazaa to share their personal files without their knowledge. In a
> laboratory user study, only 2 out of 12 subjects were able to correctly
> determine that Kazaa was sharing their entire hard drive. We looked at the
> current Kazaa network and discovered that many users are sharing personal
> information such as email and data for financial programs such as Microsoft
> Money.

Paper:
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/kazaa/KazaaUsability.pdf>

Discussion at Slashdot:
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/06/0037231>

Best,

Ziya