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If the general public would learn and implement even one out of the below list items, they would significantly improve their online security 1. Learn how to ty

If the general public would learn and implement even one out of the below list items, they would significantly improve their online security 1. Learn how to type facebook.com into the URL bar vs. Googling for Google, then searching Facebook, then clicking the Facebook ad that redirected to a phishing site (happened to my sister) 2. Use password hygiene (you'd never reuse the same kleenex would you?) 3. Use a password manager 4. Don't be obstinate when computer people try to help you improve your online security. 5. Update your crap, stop clicking Remind Me Later A dismissive sniff is NOT the proper reaction - those computer nerds aren't wearing spandex anymore deary. "I don't want to do that!" Well fine, I'll wave goodby as you do the equivalent of driving down the freeway with no doors, no seatbelts, and three flat tires~!

heavenlyblue 9y ago
Oh come on: you may make a point of users not caring about security, but in essence it all comes to the entities that actually care: banks, who need to prove it was user's fault; government, whose voters are not going to vote for the president who could not deliver a safe government; shops who pay for chargebacks... Why don't we just stop trying to make users remember all of the safety measures they've got to take care of (which by the way sound to a layperson more like a cargo cult rather than a genuine problem), and implement proper public-key authentication on all of the websites? Identity theft is a problem - that's true. But the solution is the practical one and not ideological.
u801e 9y ago
> If the general public would learn and implement even one out of the below list items, they would significantly improve their online security I wonder if companies could do their part in improving online security by allowing the option of authentication through client side TLS certificates. That, in itself, would eliminate the necessity of the first 3 items in your list.

heavenlyblue 9y ago

Oh come on: you may make a point of users not caring about security, but in essence it all comes to the entities that actually care: banks, who need to prove it was user's fault; government, whose voters are not going to vote for the president who could not deliver a safe government; shops who pay for chargebacks... Why don't we just stop trying to make users remember all of the safety measures they've got to take care of (which by the way sound to a layperson more like a cargo cult rather than a genuine problem), and implement proper public-key authentication on all of the websites? Identity theft is a problem - that's true. But the solution is the practical one and not ideological.

u801e 9y ago

> If the general public would learn and implement even one out of the below list items, they would significantly improve their online security I wonder if companies could do their part in improving online security by allowing the option of authentication through client side TLS certificates. That, in itself, would eliminate the necessity of the first 3 items in your list.