On 09/20/15 14:05, Anne Wilson wrote: > It's a sad fact that a huge proportion of computer users are woefully > ignorant of security - we'd not be plagued by so many viruses, > trojans, keystroke-recorders and the like if this were not so.
Very true. I have encountered problems of this type frequently in a professional capacity. (And also its counterpart, users who throw up all kinds of obfuscation and security-through-obscurity measures that accomplish nothing except to make them *think* that they must now be secure, while making it difficult to maintain their infrastructure and therefore often actually making them *less* secure because security patching doesn't get done.) > Don't > be put off, either, by the grandma and grandpa image - just for the > record, I'm 75 and a great-grandma. That's by the way, though. I was > once asked to do a "using the internet safely" talk to a group of > women, almost all retired or soon to be retired people from > responsible jobs who had used computers in their work for years. It > was a shock to all of us, me as the leader of the group, and them as > the listeners. They were stunned by the number of things I pointed > out to them (with screenshots showing where to look) of which they had > been completely unaware. More power to you! My hat is off to you. :) -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485
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