Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:55:20 -0500
From: "Elazar Broad" <elazar@...hmail.com>
To: yr42.lists@...il.com, kevin@....appstate.edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, astle.j@...il.com
Subject: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

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I maintain that by not educating our users we are failing in that
goal.
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With many it is in one ear, out the other, unless you are allowed
to use a clue bat...

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:36:32 -0500 Kevin Wilcox
<kevin@....appstate.edu> wrote:
>2009/2/6 Yudi Rosen <yr42.lists@...il.com>:
>
>> But Joe the Plumber doesn't want to have to click on endless
>'confirm'
>> dialogs every time he tries to use the computer. Simply having
>him run as a
>> non-admin user only fixes half the problem.
>
>No, it doesn't fix anywhere *near* half of the problem; it doesn't
>address that we have millions of people that use their computers
>without knowing anything about them.
>
>"But not every car driver needs to be a mechanic!" Yes, I know
>this,
>but every driver needs to know that there are laws and rules
>concerning how they drive and what happens when a 1200 kilogramme
>car
>hits a 100 kilogramme pedestrian at 70 kilometres/hour. Every
>driver
>needs to know they need to have their tyres rotated and their oil
>changed. There are things you must know beyond, "accelerator,
>decelerator and steering wheel".
>
>"But a computer isn't going to kill anyone if someone gets
>infected by
>a virus or trojan!" Yes, I know this, too, but if you're mixing
>questionable software and surfing habits with online banking and
>shopping, it's a recipe for destruction. Welcome to identity theft
>and
>empty bank accounts.
>
>We can either continue to pretend like it's *only* really crappy
>software or we can realise that it's a combination of easily
>exploitable software, user ignorance and user apathy. You can give
>them an operating system that has been vetted and been through
>multiple code reviews by people that really do know secure OS
>design
>but they wouldn't be able to accomplish anything at all. So what
>do we
>do? We give them operating systems that are less secure, hope they
>don't shoot their feet off and turn them loose with it - but we
>don't
>shoulder the burden of training them. Some of us do but we, as a
>collective, do not. Until we can properly educate our users, all
>we
>are doing is trying to mitigate risk in the best ways we can while
>still providing them a service. I maintain that by not educating
>our
>users we are failing in that goal.
>
>kmw
>
>--
>Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
>even
>if chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits
>who
>neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey
>twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
>
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