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Steve Riley [MSFT]
What disturbs me is how fashionable it's become to blame the victim. Computers
have gotten very powerful, they can do a lot -- but most people use them
only for a little. The Internet is arguably the most complex thing (perhaps
aside from the space station) ever built by humans. The intersection of a
powerful thing with a complex environment leads to, well, chaos, and I'm
not sure that typical analogies like driving cars (which is a popular one,
no slam against your reply intended) really help to understand or frame the
problem.
Like I said, I don't have many answers, but it's something I think about
because right now my gut tells me that ordinary users have to know waaaaay
too much about the bowels of their computers and the Internet to keep themselves
protected.
Steve Riley
(e-mail address removed)
have gotten very powerful, they can do a lot -- but most people use them
only for a little. The Internet is arguably the most complex thing (perhaps
aside from the space station) ever built by humans. The intersection of a
powerful thing with a complex environment leads to, well, chaos, and I'm
not sure that typical analogies like driving cars (which is a popular one,
no slam against your reply intended) really help to understand or frame the
problem.
Like I said, I don't have many answers, but it's something I think about
because right now my gut tells me that ordinary users have to know waaaaay
too much about the bowels of their computers and the Internet to keep themselves
protected.
Steve Riley
(e-mail address removed)