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Customer Feedback Wicki for Windows Security Access Control

Hi folks. My current possition at Microsoft is as a Program Manager (PM) on the Security User Experience team in the Windows Security Access Control (WSAC) group. I'm just posting this to mention a new set of Wiki pages at Channel9 that have been put
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Fear and Loathing in Las Seguridades (Security)

Fear. Anger. Distrust. These will motiviate users to change their behaviour when it comes to securing their computers At least that's the way Frank Hayes sees it in his article "Fear, Anger, Distrust" . Hayes discusses two surveys that came out last week:
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Usable Security - a new Usability and Security blog

Well, I'm a bit late to the party but that doesn't mean I can't still welcome Ping and his Usable Security blog to the intersection of User Experience Ave. and Security St. ;-) It's nice to see someone else blogging in this area. I look forward to reading
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strawberryJAMM moves to Blogs @ TechNet

blogs.TechNet.com has officially gone live and "strawberryJAMM's Security and User Experience WebLog" has moved off blogs.MSDN.com

Least-Privileged Users, Add/Remove Programs and System Management Server

Did you know that installations published to enterprise employees using Systems Management Server (SMS) can be successfully installed by a non-Admin user using the "Add New Programs" view of the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) control panel applet?
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"Using a Least-Privileged User Account" OR "Woohoo, I've been published on microsoft.com!"

An article I wrote, "Using a Least-Privileged User Account (LUA)", was published on TechNet as part of the monthly Microsoft Security Newsletter for January 2005. It takes a brief look at a few of the key issues around the principle of "least-privilege" and running as LUA on the Windows OS.
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Digital Rights Management - A Product Customer’s don’t Want

Cory Doctorow gave an excellent talk on the Microsoft Redmond Campus which was about digital rights management (DRM) and why it's not a good idea. He then posted the transcript to the internet under a copy-left style license so everyone can see what he had to say to us. He made some good points that really resonated with the "User Experience" champion in me - though somehow I doubt the people working on DRM were listening.
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