another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:01:02PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> This is way beyond the typical user threshold of inconvenience.

And maybe it's not actually worth it at all:

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/03/security-advice-is-wrong.html

"The surprising conclusion is that some security advice we give to people
-- such as inspect URLs carefully, pay attention to https certificate
warnings, and use complicated passwords that change frequently -- does more
harm than good. It actually costs someone far more to follow the advice
than the benefit that person should expect to get."

-b

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