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Relentless cybersecurity warnings have given people "security fatigue" that stops them keeping themselves safe, suggests a study.
Many ignored warnings they received, found the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Others were worn out by software updates and by the number of passwords they had to remember, NIST found.
This "risky behaviour" might make people more susceptible to attack, it warned.
Biometrics will save us, won't they?
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It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:04AM
A secure computer is a reliable computer. Does it do strictly and only what the user says? If so, it's as secure as the user using it.
The problem is that security on the human front is hard. I can collect usernames and passwords by the dozen using porn as my stalking horse, because people re-use passwords.
There is no patch for this.
Maybe you want everyone to use RSA style key fobs? Not hard to subvert those by user action either.
Security gurus run around squawking like frightened hens about this exploit, and that trojan, and this phishing scam - and to Joe User it's all noise because there was one last week, and there will be another next week, and frankly he doesn't have the expertise to even track all this crap if he wanted to, which he doesn't.
Real experts can achieve a reasonable degree of security for things that are really, truly important. Everyone else is screwed, regularly, and should not use computers for anything important.
That's the central message: "Don't use a computer for anything you care about."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:16AM
"Security is a human concept"
I like that. Most [wikipedia.org] computers do math just fine. It's input (user and networking) that is the problem.
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