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[Drew Van Zandt]

"It actually costs someone far more to follow the advice
than the benefit that person should expect to get."

*coughairportsecuritycough*

--DTVZ

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene at klatsch.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
> proportion.                                        <francis bacon>
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