RE: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

["John Ruppert" <likewhoa_666 () hotmail com>]

> From: "Robert J. Liebsch" <rliebsch () stoneyamashita com>
> To: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>
> CC: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:57:12 -0700
>
> worse than HTML email... Exchange

worse than Exange... it's Users.

> *eep*

Please continue.

> I have mixed emotions about making ppl understand security. Users are 
> rather
> stupid by nature.
> Otherwise, I wouldn't have a job.

Now that's a fun sentence, you have to admit it.

"Users are rather stupid by nature. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a job."

Let's analyse this. It's not hard to understand.
Translation:
                 "I am not smart enough to handle intelligent people."

> I think however, having them use the software and equipment, making 
> natural,
> and letting them
> watch the news and read the magazines, and talk to the clients about "oh,
> that worm/virus/hack,
> didn't affect us.

wtf? News are evil. News is business. News are not facts and influence the 
world's population
way of thinking.

> I cannot make users understand why they need to change passwords. They 
> argue
> and whine and
> cry alot, but they do change those passwords.

erase their data once and they will never cry alot again.

> My wife, my family are not tech savvy folks. But they humor me and they 
> take
> precautions, then
> they patiently listen to their friends and collegues complain about virii,
> ftp and irc servers they were
> unwittingly running on thier systems. Then I get to overhear my family say
> things like "well why don't
> you have a Router/Firewall thingy... it works for me"
>
> 9out of 10, that silly little NAT on the linksys is enough to ward off
> penetrations to home computers, for
> home manual non-reading users.

Just so you know, unplugging the wire solves 10 out of 10.

    -likewhoa
How do you plan to change the world, today ?

---
"I like to control my brain with my brain."
 -Harden

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