Similarly...funny that so many people in the US wait in line for a new iPhone, Wii or similar.
Most other countries, they are lucky to have a working computer.
Heck, they are happy that the power is up.
that is why so many people who get scammed are elderly and non-tech, since they are so out of date.
No longer at that firm.
but all their systems were old, all their software was old....
it was like being in a time warp.
but my point is that a good part of this country, and all of the third-world, is running on old archaic systems.
Thanks.
This is not a trivial point.
Many people in the tech world work in pristine offices with state of the art software/hardware.
I have had to support remote offices recently where the people worked on Intel 486 computers running Windows 95. They had zero budgets for training, let alone security awareness.
Strong security to them means Smith & Wesson.
I would guess that the notion of strong passwords is a strange concept to at least 50% of the users out there.
Maybe if you work in an office of 30 year old tech people.
Trying supporting a remote office in the backwoods of Tennessee where the users don't understand technology.
They CAN'T create and maintain secure passwords.
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The UN has done nothing to stop 30,000 innocents from being slaughtered in Syria. they can't be trusted to run the net.
Similarly...funny that so many people in the US wait in line for a new iPhone, Wii or similar. Most other countries, they are lucky to have a working computer. Heck, they are happy that the power is up. that is why so many people who get scammed are elderly and non-tech, since they are so out of date.
No longer at that firm. but all their systems were old, all their software was old.... it was like being in a time warp. but my point is that a good part of this country, and all of the third-world, is running on old archaic systems.
good points. thank you!
love it! thanks! says it all.
Thanks. This is not a trivial point. Many people in the tech world work in pristine offices with state of the art software/hardware. I have had to support remote offices recently where the people worked on Intel 486 computers running Windows 95. They had zero budgets for training, let alone security awareness. Strong security to them means Smith & Wesson. I would guess that the notion of strong passwords is a strange concept to at least 50% of the users out there.
Maybe if you work in an office of 30 year old tech people. Trying supporting a remote office in the backwoods of Tennessee where the users don't understand technology. They CAN'T create and maintain secure passwords.
Precisely. that is the notion of 'security theatre' Where u have the 'feeling' of security, but no real security.
Something reasonably better than Styrofoam. I am talking about a residence.
how would you advocate 'secure' homes be built?
One of the books is about bumping...no?
You advocating communism?
The dutch have flown on KLM...so this is an upgrade.
the folks in syria didn't know that....