% DRAFT: User-Agent (UA) Accidents
% Michael Stone
% July 14, 2013

I rely heavily on a small number of "user agents" -- my web browser, my email
client, my IM client, etc. -- to help meet my computer-related security goals
but, even when I think hard, I find that I am confused about what *accidents*
-- i.e., what unplanned and unacceptable losses -- these programs must help to
prevent.

Here are the accidents that I have considered so far:

  * 

Most of them have corresponding security goals:

  * control-flow integrity
  * separation
  * secrecy
  * authentication
  * unlinkability
  * faithful representation