[70196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worms versus Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Tue May 4 19:25:04 2004
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 18:24:36 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040504225356.68A597B44@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>>>However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid:
>>Or is it possible there are other explanations?
>
> Don Norman has argued quite eloquently that it's a technology and human
> factors failure -- see, for example,
> http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200312/msg00105.html
> (reprinted from RISKS Digest).
>
> Now, I'm not saying that it's easy to get things like this right, and
> I've argued loudly against the notion that auto-patching is a sane
> approach. But if we deny that there's a problem except for "stupid
> people", we're not likely to find a solution.
That last sentence is the point I was trying to get to.
After all, nearly half the people here are below the average for
intelligence.
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