Security in the wild: user strategies for managing security as an everyday, practical problem

By Paul Dourish, Rebecca E. Grinter, J. D. L. Flor, M. Joseph. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2004

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Understanding Nonmalicious Security Violations in the Workplace: A Composite Behavior Model (2011, background): “…“system” that end users may resist. users may see security measures as barriers or obstacles that create trouble rather than as a protective mechanism [1, 21]. users may also perceive security as “futile” [21] and may believe that violating policies and bypassing security measures are justified.”
Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, background): “A number of follow-up studies have found users similarly unable to manage passwords for their personal computing needs [90, 252, 121, 224, 306].”
Password management strategies for online accounts (2006, background): “which observed female office employees were concerned about stalking [8].”
The true cost of unusable password policies: password use in the wild (2010, background): “There is a growing body of evidence that people cannot cope with the password policies imposed on them [1, 7], and that, given the choice (that is, without imposed restrictions) users choose the weakest password they can get away with [10].”