Fake popup study

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:43:53 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> >> Human factors haven't received nearly enough attention, and as
> >> long as human factors failings are dismissed as the fault of
> >> "idiot users", they never will.
> >> 
> > Strong agreement.
> 
> I don't disagree that much more needs to be done on human factors. I
> just don't see it as a panacea. 

There are no panaceas in this business.  As I told my class yesterday,
if they learn nothing else they should remember that security is a
systems property, and everything interacts.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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