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Lorrie Faith Cranor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. She has authored over 100 research papers on online privacy, usable security, phishing, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Security and Usability by Lorrie Faith Cranor , Simson Garfinkel August 2005 Print: $49.99 Ebook: $39.99
Web Privacy with P3P by Lorrie Faith Cranor September 2002 Print: $39.95
Peer-to-Peer by Nelson Minar , Marc Hedlund , Clay Shirky , Tim O'Reilly , Dan Bricklin , David Anderson , Jeremie Miller , Adam Langley , Gene Kan , Alan Brown , Marc Waldman , Lorrie Faith Cranor , Aviel Rubin , Roger Dingledine , Michael Freedman , David Molnar , Rael Dornfest , Dan Brickley , Theodore Hong , Richard Lethin , Jon Udell , Nimisha Asthagiri , Walter Tuvell , Brandon Wiley February 2001 Print: $29.95
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What Is Phishing (Or, How to Fight Phishing at the User-Interface Level) Publish Date: Oct. 25, 2005
Phishing attacks use email messages and websites designed to look as if they come from a known and legitimate organization, in order to deceive users into disclosing personal, financial, or computer account information. This type of internet fraud will only grow more sophisticated in the days ahead, so our defenses against it must continue to improve. This excerpt from Security & Usability defines phishing, and offers techniques and advice on fighting phishing at the user-interface level.
A Webmaster's Guide to Troubleshooting P3P Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2002
If you're a Webmaster you know it can be a frustrating process to P3P-enable your Web sites. Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P, reviews some troubleshooting strategies and lists some of the mistakes people frequently make.
Help! IE6 Is Blocking My Cookies Publish Date: Oct. 4, 2002
Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies.
P3P: Privacy Primer Publish Date: Feb. 15, 2002
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) provides a standard way for Web sites to communicate about their practices regarding the collection, use, and distribution of personal information. This article describes the platform, shows how Microsoft IE 6 implements it, and gives examples of markup code for web designers.
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