Users Worldwide Feel Internet Is 'Safer'

buzzardsbay writes "Baseline Magazine is reporting on a study by Cisco that teases out the differing attitudes about online security among users across the globe. For instance, remote workers worldwide think the internet is getting safer ... except the folks in Italy and Germany. These folks also have a lot of faith in their corporate IT departments as 51 percent said their work computers are more secure than their personal PCs, and nearly half (45 percent) believe they are more vulnerable to malware and hacks when they're working outside their corporate perimeter. Irony of ironies, the Brazilians hold Net security in the highest regard."

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Wouldn't the irony of ironies be

[ZanySpyDude]

if the Nigerian Princes felt the net to be a perfectly secure place?

Re:Wouldn't the irony of ironies be

[gEvil (beta)]

You do realize that if we all did our part to help these princes out, that eventually there wouldn't be any more Nigerian princes in need of help, right? So pitch in! The only way we'll get these Nigerians to stop bugging us is if we get all their money back to them.

Safer than what?

[morgan_greywolf]

The Internet is safer than what? Skinny dipping in the Everglades after dark?

Re:I must have missed something.

[Niten]

Because when you have a brazillion PCs to keep track of, maintaining any semblance of security becomes orders of magnitude more difficult.

5 lines are cut

[Tiber]

Iran is without internet access. Of course it's safer!

Re:The Internet is Vast...

[CSMatt]

The only other things that can be taken from Joe Sixpack are his resources; CPU and bandwidth. You forgot about his porn.