Re: User education and the security apocalypse (was: Quickbooks)

[Erik Price]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:32  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   This is, ultimately, an education problem.  I suspect that, until we 
 have
 had a sufficient number of computer security disasters (by disaster, 
 I do
 not mean website defaced, I mean widespread financial hardship and/or
 personal injury), your average user will regard computer security as
 something they want to avoid.

   I once read a sci-fi novell that used an apropos plot device.  At one
 point, the world-wide computer network fails, causing a decade-long 
 global
 depression.  That is the sort of thing I am envisioning.  I fully 
 expect it
 to be an unpleasant time to be alive.

Unfortunately, a disaster which could be just as great is being erected 
specifically because of these problems with users who do not (know 
enough to)? take security seriously.  TCPA and Palladium take the burden 
of security out of the hands of the user:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html



Erik


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Re: User education and the security apocalypse (was: Quickbooks)

[bscott]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, at 10:22pm, Erik Price wrote:
 TCPA and Palladium take the burden of security out of the hands of the
 user...

  Yah, just like Big Brother takes the burden of free will out of the hands
of the people.

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Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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