[LINK] Security efforts hindered by untrained users

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:46 AM 31/01/2008, Kim Holburn wrote:
>You talk as if a knowledgeable person would understand when seeing
>the "pop up" what was happening and press the right button.  Simply
>not the case.  Much software is very badly designed and doesn't
>present the user with enough information to make any kind of informed
>answer.  I've seen experienced IT people stumped at times, so how is
>the average user going to do?  Not well.

Agreed. There are so many warnings now that it's nearly impossible to 
know if doing something will really be a problem or just maybe a 
problem or just some geek covering his/her backside in the code. Just 
yesterday I was warned about a certificate that had expired and if I 
communicated with this site, someone might see it. The irony was that 
the site was wikileaks.org which through the request to secure.wikileaks.org!

Jan




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