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Your Computer Is Insecure. Bad planning, eh?

ACM News Service: Our Frankenputer.  This blurb looks at a variety of hardware fixes and software solutions for improving security of the PC.  The idea is to have PCs designed with security in mind.  While I think that is a good idea, I would like to look more at where Peter Neumann points concerning the user culture and our part in the insecurity of our systems, at least among developers-as-users and power users who do not take appropriate and already-available precautions.

The Philip E. Ross, 2005-03-14 Forbes.com article has the following provocative lead:  "Hostile programs bend our computers to their own purposes because we designed them that way. Time for some new ideas."  Now just exactly who is this we they're talking about?

posted by orcmid at 3/22/2005 10:28:00 AM, rating data by NewsGator Online