'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users

jonney02 writes "BBC News is running the following story 'The average home computer user is bamboozled by technology jargon which is used to warn people about the most serious security threats online.' "

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Dear lord...

[Pants75]

Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator?

These people have to take responsibility for their online actions just like in real life

If they go giving away their CC details because they didn't understand the security warning about phishing (rubbish name by the way), then they really shouldn't expect to not get taken to the cleaners.

Would you give me your CC details in the street if I asked nicely? No? You Sure?

How about your National Security Number (Social Security Number for you yanks)? Why? Because its sensitive data and you don't want to get ripped off?

Then don't do it online without being aware of your actions.

Rant Of The Angry Brit Over

Re:I cant say I blame them

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

And yet many users respond to long 419 scams and 30-word emails about enlarging penises. As the saying goes, "size doesn't matter; it's what you do with it that does."

Re:Uh-huh

[aldoman]

AOL UK provides a fairly decent no-limits, straight up PPPoA ADSL broadband connection, which you can use with any DSL router or modem -- you don't need their software anymore.

They also provide access to their email via IMAP4.

I wouldn't choose them, but they are extremely well priced in the UK broadband market and have a very good network (in terms of peering, latency and speeds) -- at least on the DSL side of things.

Nearly every other major UK ISP caps users. British Telecom for example has a 512k connection with a 1GB cap for hte same price that AOL does a unlimited one.

Also on the subject of UK Broadband news, UK Online have dropped the price of their 8mbit service to £29.99/month.. which isn't bad at all when you consider it's free activiation and a free 802.11g wireless DSL router.