Here's a column I did awhile back on why user education is an impractical solution to computer security issues:
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/commentary/tipsheet.asp?id=33&action=0 Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ATD Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:20 PM To: Nexus Cc: Peter Kruse; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] A worm... I agree with you 100% but you do realize that the challenge is to educate executives that do not understand, or care to understand security. They just "want it to work". Being an executive myself, I understand that mentality, but I also understand the value of knowledge. On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:59, Nexus wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:57 PM > Subject: SV: [Full-Disclosure] A worm... > > [snip] > > > malicious code inside the new rar format and spread it. I suppose it�s > > fairly easy to write a worm that packs itself with a random password and > > inserts this into a e-mail sent to the victim. This way it will pass > > most AV-gateway scanners since they won't have access to scan inside the > > zipe archive. > > In that case [the content analysis engine] should automatically quarantine > the attachment and await human intervention. > Otherwise, why bother with them at all ? It's an odd world when the > preferred solution is an application rather than user edumacation. > > Cheers. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
