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Re: Fake popup study
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Sep 24 18:51:59 2008
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:50:18 -0700
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <87fxnp43rp.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
perry@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 wrot=
e:
>I don't want to claim that there is no place for better human factors
>work in security engineering. There clearly is. However, I will
>repeat, that is not the only story here, and it is not unreasonable to
>note that there are people who are clearly nearly impossible to
>protect with almost any level of human factors engineering and
>security technology.
I would suggest that, in the "real world", most of the people that
are nearly impossible to protect, don't have much money. Now "real
world" scams have been around for quite a while, and we teach about
them in school. However they still work with some people, which is
why those people don't have much money.
Online scams are newer, and many of their victims left school long
before the scams became popular. I expect the online situation will
stabilize in about the same way as the "real world" one has.
Cheers - Bill
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