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I think you're right: People are not afraid of computers anymore, and when they are, it's in all the wrong ways. When I was younger the internet terrified peop
by jarcane 12y ago
I think you're right: People are not afraid of computers anymore, and when they are, it's in all the wrong ways.
When I was younger the internet terrified people. I learned all kinds of simple "don'ts" in the 90s that it seems all got completely forgotten within a decade and now no-one learns anything anymore.
I didn't even use my real name online until a couple of years ago. It was like the first rule of the internet: never put your real-life details on the internet.
Now we have Facebook.
News stories and Outlook viruses made it abundantly clear that you should never ever ever click an attachment if you didn't specifically request it and know exactly what it is (And even then, best to double check).
Now there's a whole bloody black-market industry built on attachment malware.
I was told to never re-use passwords, never write them down, and never give my password to anyone.
Now we have apps that conveniently collect every single one of your passwords to provide a single-point weakness where one password unlocks your entire bloody online identity, and the point of even having separate passwords is completely lost. And it's somehow supposed to be 'more secure'.
I don't understand the internet anymore.
- andrewchambers 12y agoThe point of services like last pass is that a website with shitty security won't compromise all your accounts on websites with decent security. The point is you only trust one security specialist company rather than many non security specialist companies. It's getting to the point where if you don't use something like lastpass, then reusing passwords to some extent is needed - or do you remember 20 different passwords for each site you visit, even when you visit them only once a year?
- jarcane 12y agoYou're right that the password-vault part is the weakest part of the post, I think, though I'd argue many people probably don't even use (relatively) secure options like LastPass, and probably default to "password managers" built in to browsers or OSes. I just have this weird cognitive dissonance when I see the 'big threats' that get posted sometimes online. The other day I read a Reddit post about some Dangerous New Threat to Bitcoiners, that amounted to nothing a slightly-more-clever-than-average attachment virus. I don't understand how anyone managed to get as far as even operating a Bitcoin wallet and somehow never learned basics like "don't click blindly on email attachments".
- DanBC 12y ago> I don't understand how anyone managed to get as far as even operating a Bitcoin wallet and somehow never learned basics like "don't click blindly on email attachments". Perhaps you're not the best person to be giving security advice if you don't understand why people - even those who should know better - click on email attachments?