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The Usability War

When your users don’t like what you offer, they will use something else. If your secure communication app is cumbersome and slow, people will take to insecure but user-friendly commercial software.

The U.S. Secretary of War couldn’t be bothered to use the Pentagon-supplied app and leaked classified information on WhatsApp. Now, Russia is restricting Telegram only to figure out that its soldiers in

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	Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development-Made Simple 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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