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Bollocks. It's unreasonable, not to mention unrealistic, to shift the balance of responsibility for online security from the relatively small set of professiona
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Bollocks. It's unreasonable, not to mention unrealistic, to shift the balance of responsibility for online security from the relatively small set of professional developers to the mass of individual, non-expert users.
Imagine if banks had a policy that their individual customers were responsible for ensuring that their deposits were secure - banks would collapse regularly (and in fact did collapse regularly before the introduction of deposit insurance).
- extension 16y agoIt would help if users didn't give instant, unconditional, blind trust to cloud services, as the vast majority seem to now. Just taking a moment to consider security before dumping their data in a service they don't really need could make a big difference. But learned helplessness is a tough habit to break.