Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
>>> "seamless" and "seamful" seem very wooly words.  Are they, in this
>>> context, well-defined?

A seamless transition is one where the user is not alerted in any way  
to a security barrier being traversed, and where she is not afforded a  
chance to stop that traversal. A seamful transition is one that's not  
seamless.

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