Tyler Close wrote: > Heikki, can you point to any user survey that shows that the typical > user has no fear of money being stolen from their online bank account?
You are missing the point. If you ask people: do you fear money being stolen from your online bank account, the majority may well say yes. But if you ask those same people questions that show how they deal with security issues in every day life, their actions actually say they don't care, or don't think they would be a likely victim, or they think all the systems are secure as they are. There have been studies done at universities (I have a hard time coming up with links at the moment) where students were asked about there habits regarding their debit cards and passwords to certain online systems (among other things). A study found that a large percentage of students were confident to give the PIN number to their friends and give them their debit card so that they could go and withdraw some money for them. Yet they can be concerned somebody might steal money from them using their debit cards. Students that never change their password, even after sharing it with friends, can be concerned about online security. Students can share the contents of all the files on their computer to the whole university network, even though their computer may contain sensitive information about them, and be concerned somebody posts nude pictures of themselves on the internet. And so on and so forth. The percentages I saw were surprisingly large, in some cases more than 50% for questionable practices. (I saw a presentation about a study at Dartmouth College, so you could try searching with that.) So to summarize it again: people can be concerned about security, but may not take any action to protect themselves. -- Heikki Toivonen _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
