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AviD's Rule of Usability: "Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security."

Security companies should have more focus on the usability aspect of their product. Some of the enterprise products you see today are just plain bad in terms of UX/UI, and funnily enough, they aren't getting called out since they're only used in the workplace/closed groups.

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this is why i have a problem with flatpacks. i’ve tried using an immutable distro with flatpacks and it’s made me want to disable every flatpack security measure because it’s even harsher and less usable than macos’s sandboxing. i don’t know what their goal is but it’s definitely not usable if i can’t connect 1password to my browser or i struggle to get steam to access another drive

Yeah there's a certain amount of effort most people are willing to put in to do something. If it's too high, it won't happen. Yet at the same time a certain baseline is needed to not end up being low hanging fruit for attackers.

I've also seen this, especially in security tools. The usability is often straight out of the 90s which keeps me wondering, who uses this voluntarily?

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