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 More jargon, less security
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Kailash
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Registered Member #2827
Joined: Sun Jan 13 2008, 11:39AM
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Who has not wondered why so many acronyms and jargon are
used. I agree with Mr Chertoff that they give a 'sense of superiority',
the possession of some kind of 'secret knowledge' that mere mortals
like us are not supposed to understand.
Computer jargon baffles users, hinders security
• By Reuters
• February 20, 2010 |
• 11:00 am
• Categories: Internet Culture & Etiquette
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — Computer jargon, a “tick box” culture and unimaginative
advertising are discouraging Internet users from learning how to protect themselves
online.
Faced with such gobbledegook, many of the world’s nearly two billion internet
users conclude that security is for “experts” and fail to take responsibility for
the security of their own patch of cyberspace — a potentially costly mistake.
That was the message from cyber experts who met this week to work out how
to protect computer users from the growing problem of online theft, fraud,
vandalism, abuse and espionage.
“The malicious and criminal use of cyberspace today is stunning in its scope
and innovation,” said Dell Services President Peter Altabef.
One problem is that computer “geeks” use jargon to cloak their work in scholarly
mystique, resulting in a lack of clarity in everything from instruction manuals
and systems design to professional training, the experts said.
“If you don’t demystify security, people become anxious about it and don’t want
to do it,” former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Reuters
on the sidelines of the EastWest Institute security meeting in Brussels.
“There are some people in the profession who to some degree enjoy the
mystification of what they do, that it’s not penetrable. It’s almost
a sense of superiority,” he said.
More at: http://tinyurl.com/yf3v2s5
....and Darkness said to Light: "Without Me You cannot be. Light replied: "Without Me You are not! I am You and You are Me. Therefore we are One." - Kailash
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