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
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