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Well, like everything else .. Marketers are betting on the laziness of people. Why tell someone he can lose weight by working out and eating less, when you can
by Jugurtha 13y ago
Well, like everything else .. Marketers are betting on the laziness of people.
Why tell someone he can lose weight by working out and eating less, when you can sell them a pill that makes them lose weight while they sleep and get abs in 7 minutes?
Why learn programming in several years, when you can "learn programming in three days".
Why tell people to be cautious with their data, not to click on everything, when you can sell them a "condom" that enables them to remain reckless and careless and lazy ?
- rbanffy 13y agoYou can also just cut wires 2 and 3 of your cable.
- Piskvorrr 13y agoSome attacks do not depend on user interaction ("clicking"); plugging the device in might be sufficient. Thus, hardware air-gap becomes necessary. (of course, this just shifts the problem around: now you need to trust the "usb condom"; but given its simplicity, it should be much harder to put anything nefarious there)
- Jugurtha 13y agoYeah. I looked at it from a "consumer education" perspective, but it is unrealistic to ask for that. Not everyone is interested in those things. However, what does that thing actually do ? How does it work? Signatures ? Block "autorun" or something ? I didn't see any details.
- Piskvorrr 13y agoThe USB condom? Much lower-level than that: no data pins, only power.