This is an in-depth essay about the psychology of security, i.e. what makes people feel safe or not, totally independently from whether they actually are safe or not. In our day when many people feel they made to feel under threat all the time, it’s a very interesting contribution. Has implications both in the obvious way to manipulate people one way or another, but also for design and usability – how to write and design things so that the level of perceived risk matches the real risk.

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