{"id":12,"date":"2010-09-16T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapsid.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/16\/gui-design-principle\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T06:19:07","slug":"gui-design-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/p\/12","title":{"rendered":"GUI design principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asking for a root password in response to someone pressing the power button on the machine<br \/>\nshows: the designer didn&#8217;t understand the problem to solve at all.<\/p>\n<p>It told me that I need to enter the root password because someone else was logged in. That&#8217;s fine, but *I* can pull the power anyways.<\/p>\n<p>The question is just: are the GUI designers or the security designers to blame.<\/p>\n<p>(observed on Fedora 13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking for a root password in response to someone pressing the power button on the machine shows: the designer didn&#8217;t understand the problem to solve at all. It told me that I need to enter the root password because someone else was logged in. That&#8217;s fine, but *I* can pull the power anyways. The question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}