Late last year in an article titled "In Zombies We Trust," Dan Geer suggested that there are two types of users — those who blindly say yes to everything and are probably infected with a dozen viruses and those who say no to most everything and likely escape most virus problems — and that it could be a legitimate practice for websites to further scrutinize the actions of those who always say yes to prevent them from getting into trouble while using their site. The premise is that these virus-infected users end up costing the businesses they frequent a significant amount of money by being such persistent problems.
Folks at Information Systems & Information Security Lab @ Polytechnic University of NY would like to take this idea further, by denying business to any customer that exhibits insecure computing habits. Their justification is that Insurance and Health care industry does the same. Read More and cast your vote @ http://isisblogs.poly.edu/2008/03/12/refusing-business-from-security-unaware-customers/ It will be interesting to see the outcome of the survey. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
