uthredii to Technology · edit-23 years agoSecuring your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practicesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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minus-squareHelix 🧬@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years ago 1 the user lacks common sense, as this is the largest security hole. what we as top 5% IT professionals call “common sense” is completely different from what a “I’m not a computer person” person would call common sense.
minus-squareZerushlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoSeen in the Web “I’m going to open this attachment in my mail, surely nothing happens” “My 300 friends on Facebook are sure to rejoice, when I tell them that tomorrow I will travel to the Bahamas on vacation” “Die of Envy, here the photo of my new home in…” “I’m going to upload a photocopy of my ID and credit card to Google, so that I can watch this age restricterd video on YouTube”. “Call me in this number seen in my last post” And worse It is one thing to not be an IT specialist and another to not be an idiot.
minus-squareHelix 🧬@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years ago It is one thing to not be an IT specialist and another to not be an idiot. Most people are idiots, by that measure.
what we as top 5% IT professionals call “common sense” is completely different from what a “I’m not a computer person” person would call common sense.
Seen in the Web
“I’m going to open this attachment in my mail, surely nothing happens”
“My 300 friends on Facebook are sure to rejoice, when I tell them that tomorrow I will travel to the Bahamas on vacation”
“Die of Envy, here the photo of my new home in…”
“I’m going to upload a photocopy of my ID and credit card to Google, so that I can watch this age restricterd video on YouTube”.
“Call me in this number seen in my last post”
And worse
It is one thing to not be an IT specialist and another to not be an idiot.
Most people are idiots, by that measure.