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If you have experienced the thrills of working at a IT support desk, you'll soon learn to dread the calls of "...well I just opened this attachment and this funny screen appeared... now my PC is acting strange...".
The BBC have posted an interview with Marcus Ranum, a senior technologist at security firm TruSecure and the man credited with creating the first commercial firewall. He feels users can not be trusted to deal with security issues anymore and instead of educating them, focus should be made on moving technology forward...
"Human users can fairly safely survive by not doing anything," he says, "so they are not going to change."
"We are psychologically unsuited to be secure in the way that the computer industry says we should be."
"Technology is going to have to go towards systems that just work like the cell phone just works," he says, "you do not have to patch your telephone."
You can read the full article here.
The BBC have posted an interview with Marcus Ranum, a senior technologist at security firm TruSecure and the man credited with creating the first commercial firewall. He feels users can not be trusted to deal with security issues anymore and instead of educating them, focus should be made on moving technology forward...
"Human users can fairly safely survive by not doing anything," he says, "so they are not going to change."
"We are psychologically unsuited to be secure in the way that the computer industry says we should be."
"Technology is going to have to go towards systems that just work like the cell phone just works," he says, "you do not have to patch your telephone."
You can read the full article here.