Lorrie Cranor

Lorrie Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She is currently the Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New...
browser explorer helper microsoft object showing works
At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsoft Explorer as a plug-in.
consumers easily hopefully hunt matches personal privacy scary site sort
Right now, consumers have to hunt for privacy documents, and that can sometimes be scary when they see all they will have to read and sort through. Hopefully this will be a way they can see easily how a site matches their personal preferences.
average build close election hard level national needed security standard system today
Any system we could build today that would come close to the needed level of security for a national election would be very hard for an average person to use, ... We couldn't use standard browsers, and we would need a way to authenticate users, like passwords or encryption keys.
controlled project small
The project was done on a very small scale, in a very controlled environment,