[LINK] Security efforts hindered by untrained users

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:06:32AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> On a more serious note, the quoted article is a very long-winded
> puff piece that says "stupid people offline are going to be stupid
> online as well; there is nothing that can be done to unstupify stupid
> people." Yeah, so what? I guess interesting things to write about were
> scarce on ground that day.

there's also the fact (which can be attested to by anyone who has ever
done tech support) that many otherwise quite intelligent people suddenly
become incredibly stupid when faced with any technology more complicated
than a toaster.

and, of course, there ARE a lot of just plain stupid people in the
world...the movie Idiocracy was not a comedy, it was a chillingly
accurate prophecy.


craig

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