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Re: Adobe investigates sophisticatic corporate networksecurity issue


From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:16:46 +0100

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Paul M. Moriarty <pmm () igtc com> wrote:


On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

[...]


This blaming the victim stuff has to stop.

--Dan



Or put another way, expecting end users to change their behavior and start
doing all the things they "should" be doing is futile.  Any approach based
on this premise will fail.

- Paul -


I dislike this formulation, because it implies that users are too stupid to
do what they're told.  They're doing exactly what they're told -- by their
actual bosses, who pay them.
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