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That actually may be a very good idea. It's not that non-experts should be forbidden from using these thing it is that we should stop handing people guns that

by lotu 12y ago

That actually may be a very good idea. It's not that non-experts should be forbidden from using these thing it is that we should stop handing people guns that they end up using to shoot themselves in the foot with.

acdha 12y ago
Agreed – I'm not cheerful about the implications of making things less user-serviceable but … it's not like we don't know how well that's worked out. If you haven't already read it, SwiftOnSecurity's “A story about Jessica” is rather good for illustrating how badly we've failed as an industry to produce devices which are safe for non-experts to use: http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-about-jessica http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-a...
- kazagistar 12y ago
  Thats a cool article. On the other hand, WTF is up with that blog?!?
  - acdha 12y ago
    It started as a parody Twitter account (https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity and e.g. https://imgur.com/a/1PDRJ https://imgur.com/a/1PDRJ) but got more serious over time. The author really came into their own around the time of last summer's celebrity iCloud attack when so many people were jumping to blame the victims for assuming that big tech companies were good at security.
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