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Rob VandenBrink 555 Posts ISC Handler Sep 17th 2012 |
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Sep 17th 2012 8 years ago |
This article is more proof that most people put convenience well before security. The surest near cure is to build the security into the app or device and make it convenient to use. Can smartphones and tablets be designed with a persona lock so that only the registered user can use it? Not to make it proof against a persistent attack by an expert, which is impossible, but make it proof against the casual attack.
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KBR 63 Posts |
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Sep 17th 2012 8 years ago |
In a free society, it has got to be the user's choice whether to secure his devices -- and whether to lock his car, his front door, etc. Just make sure he has the option to secure, and is aware that he has the option; you can't force it on him.
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Moriah 133 Posts |
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Sep 17th 2012 8 years ago |
Free society notwithstanding, the vast majority of users are not choosing [a lack of] security, they're choosing whether or not to be inconvenienced.
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Moriah 1 Posts |
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Sep 18th 2012 8 years ago |
And what is more inconvenient than being compromised? But they only ever learn that the "hard way".
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Moriah 133 Posts |
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Sep 18th 2012 8 years ago |
I like to tell users my "front door" story. I ask them if they have ever been incinvenienced by having to dig for their keys to open the front door, especially when they are carrying 5 bags of groceries. They always say yes. I then tell them how much easier it would be to get the front door open if they just left it unlocked. I usually get strange looks. I then go on to tell them that even when it is unlocked, they still have to turn the knob, which is also inconvenient with 5 bags of groceries. I say take the doorknob off the front door -- its more convenient. Then I say you still have to pull the door open, so just take the door off the hinges, and prop it up in the front yard, and spray paint a sign that says "crack party tonight, all welcome!" They usually get my point before I get this far.
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Moriah 133 Posts |
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Sep 18th 2012 8 years ago |
Are you perhaps confusing What's Up, a network monitoring system, with WhatsApp, which is an instant messaging application?
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Sep 18th 2012 8 years ago |
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