> It has been a very long time since I had virus or trojan on my home > computers. The only time my website was hacked, someone had socially > engineered my email password out of microsoft. > > So it is not apparent to me that the node is the problem.
http://www.rickwash.com/papers/rwash-homesec-soups10-final.pdf Different people perceive security differently and react to threats differently. Often times educating people doesn't change any action of the individual. In order words: Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave instead of getting people to behave in a different way. > My wife knows > nothing about computers. > ... Anecdotes are not evidence. There are have been many studies which show that user education of this form rarely works. > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
