The insight I got out of the article was that the two big problems of security are still user education and cognitive overload.
As anyone who's tried to wean people off of a certain popular emal client with a propensity for executing any binary attachments to messages can attest these are not easy problems. The cognitive overload problem strikes me as the more interesting of the two since solving it even partially would be an lucrative proposition. Part of the problem is that security is a cost and an encumbrance and we've developed an ecosystem of people and organisations who have a vested interest in seeing that the status quo is maintained. I thought the most interesting bit was the one about standards, and the fact that the IETF process ground to a halt once there was money to be made... -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
