The challenges of understanding and using security: A survey of end-users

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Computers & security

• Publication date

  2006-02-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cose.2005.12.004
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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