Maybe my sense of humor needs an upgrade, but I find this amusing. The School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, has a page called Technical Report Abstracts. The top of this page has the following details:

CMU-CS-04-135

Making Security Usable

Alma Whitten

May 2004

Ph.D. Thesis

Unavailable Electronically

The last line could be anything from a real warning to a really dry piece of comedy.

Whatever it is meant to convey, Alma Whitten (Google’s privacy chief) has conveniently made usable her thesis on errors (made it available electronically). Let us hope it was not by error.