[LINK] Users tackling 10 new vulnerabilities a day

[vicc at cia.com.au]

Danny Yee [danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au] wrote:
> Mike Shearer wrote:
> > I shall continue to be wilfully and deliberately ignorant.  I shall 
> > continue to depend on other experts to protect me and to ensure that my 
> > tools do not become dangerous in my hands.  
> 
> Indeed!  We do this everywhere else, so why not in IT?  I couldn't
> personally check the engineering specs of every bridge I drive over,
> even if I had the skills to do it.
> 
> And I'm a Linux system administrator, but even there I depend on
> experts.  I have only the vaguest understanding of the internals
> of the Linux kernel -- and on top of the kernel developers, I'm
> dependent on thousands more people to maintain and secure all the
> applications I run.
> 
> There are certain areas where people have to provide their own
> security -- most notably "social engineering" attacks and scams.
> But there's nothing peculiar to IT there.

there are few more powerful ideas in modern socirty then this division of labor.

Vic