From: "Robert J. Liebsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Schmehl, Paul L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:57:12 -0700
worse than HTML email... Exchange
worse than Exange... it's Users.
*eep*
Please continue.
I have mixed emotions about making ppl understand security. Users are rather
stupid by nature.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have a job.
Now that's a fun sentence, you have to admit it.
"Users are rather stupid by nature. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a job."
Let's analyse this. It's not hard to understand.
Translation:
"I am not smart enough to handle intelligent people."I think however, having them use the software and equipment, making natural,
and letting them
watch the news and read the magazines, and talk to the clients about "oh,
that worm/virus/hack,
didn't affect us.
wtf? News are evil. News is business. News are not facts and influence the world's population
way of thinking.
I cannot make users understand why they need to change passwords. They argue
and whine and
cry alot, but they do change those passwords.
erase their data once and they will never cry alot again.
My wife, my family are not tech savvy folks. But they humor me and they take
precautions, then
they patiently listen to their friends and collegues complain about virii,
ftp and irc servers they were
unwittingly running on thier systems. Then I get to overhear my family say
things like "well why don't
you have a Router/Firewall thingy... it works for me"
9out of 10, that silly little NAT on the linksys is enough to ward off penetrations to home computers, for home manual non-reading users.
Just so you know, unplugging the wire solves 10 out of 10.
-likewhoa How do you plan to change the world, today ?
--- "I like to control my brain with my brain." -Harden
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