Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft (Linspire repo)

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 18:41:37 UTC 2007


Alan wrote:

> The biggest security hole is sitting in front of the computer, and unlike
> the others that one is *very* hard to fix. Policy and tools have to
> reflect that as the systems get more secure the bad guys will move their
> attacks to the next weakest link - the user.

Usually there is an abstraction between what the user attempts
to do and the action that really happens.  You can have a
problem if the abstraction misrepresents its action or if
the user just doesn't understand it.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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