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I'm just informed enough about IT security to know that I really know very very little about it. That said, I probably know ten times as much as do 99% of people. I'm an expert in my field, and while I've been a jack of all trades on many fronts, today's threats to privacy and IT security require expert knowledge to combat.
I do not have time.
- For example, I hear that Microsoft added updates to Win7/8 that threaten my family's privacy...yet I have not yet gone and removed the offending updates. I moved myself to Ubuntu/xfce, but my son is still using Win8. I'll get to it eventually.
- For example, java script is a security risk, and I have No-Script, turn off 3rd party cookies, etc, but invariably I have to turn it off for some website (i.e. to pay my bill), and eventually, I stop turning it back to full security.
- I installed Cyanogenmod and Fdroid on my phone. And for the most part its great..and I have very few apps with permissive permissions settings....but my wife is still using an iphone and ipad, with all sorts of apps...with ridiculous permission leaks..and that is a struggle.
The long winded point I have is that it is now just too damn much work to do it all right. I'm tired after a 10 hour workday. I've obviously taken more steps than most, but it is still leaky as hell...
I need a company/organization that I can reasonably trust to manage my information security/property, to manage my computers, manage my vpns, e.g., to isolate my web browser windows over multiple vpns, ... all of it, and it can't be GOOGLE. My data is my property, as long as I can hold it, so it needs to be a company/organization that built in privacy obligations (like lawyers and doctors supposedly do).
-Signed: A Frustrated Tired Old Nerd (with children)
[Ed's Comment: Does such a company exist? Is it even possible to provide such a service? Or have we just identified a niche in the market for some enterprising person to fill?]
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 05 2015, @03:38PM
Do you have kids? If you do, do you spend time with them? It is not laziness. I work from morning until 7:30/at night 6 days a week. Sorry kids, I know daddy works a lot but now he needs to take your iPhone games away and patch my external firewall, inspect the new packets z software are sending to FU.com. wanna help?
Your arrogance is aggravating.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Monday October 05 2015, @04:03PM
I work in security as my job; out of interest.
I outsource stuff -- I dont have time to fix plumbing or mow the lawn even. Or fix the hole in the roof the squirrels chewed their way in through (or created).
But I measure what's valuable to me... I'm just a jerk sometimes about what I take to be a priority.
I understand if you do not feel the same way, and that's fine. My issue is that I have been paid in the past to provide advice that various executives ignore as being too costly, or they hire an intern/nephew to reboot PCs after installing a free virus scanner, and call that the solution. Sometimes problems result.
I've been hired to be the scapegoat for problems, and so I have learned to be... quite defensive, and suspicious.
It tried to end that rant with humor, being out standing in my field with a tin foil hat, but it suppose it did not pave over the bumps I had in the road put down.
I'm sorry to have offended you; I still think that having a concern for security is great to start, but it needs to be encouraged -- either via my way, which you don't like or don't like my presentation of, or another way that works for you. Please don't rely on hardware, because that is not the way... a false sense of security. Maybe that's what a lot of people want, and maybe it is arrogant of me to yank that rug out from under some people... but education is key.
Teach your wife, teach your kids, teach the dangers of what conveniences coast in that trade for security and privacy, and use the same products and techniques you expect them to use, or they might not stick with it.