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The line of death, as Eric Lawrence explained in a classic blog post, is the idea that an application should separate trustworthy UI from untrusted content. The typical example is in a web browser, where untrustworthy web content appears below the browser toolbar UI. Trustworthy content provided by the web browser must appear either in the browser toolbar, or anchored to it or overlapping it. If this separation is maintained, then untrusted content can’t spoof the trustworthy browser UI to tri...

(Image:Getty) If we’ve told you once, we’ve told you a million times—get a password manager and use it! Judging from the financial success of the password manager market, you’re paying attention. But are you using your password manager correctly? Stuart Schechter, Lecturer and Course Lead for UC Berkeley’s Usable Privacy and Security track, worries that you’re not. So much so that he encouraged his graduate students to find out just what you’re doing. At the virtual RSA security ...