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Training users has been tried for over two decades and has largely failed to hinder black hats in any significant way.
by greedo 9y ago
Training users has been tried for over two decades and has largely failed to hinder black hats in any significant way.
- coldtea 9y agoFailed on the users who took well to the training, or to those who ignored it/failed it? Because we can always not care about those others in the context of what we should do.
- greedo 9y agoFailed to improve computer security overall. Users (generally speaking, not HN readers) don't have the skills/inclination/time to be proficient at managing their systems. Efforts to educate them in malware avoidance, system upkeep etc etc are failures by and large. Technology can only do so much to "protect" users from themselves, and from miscreants. Couple this with an indifference to privacy on most of the connected population, and you've got a recipe for a world where nothing is safe. http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye