On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:42, mw...@iupui.edu said: > To be secure without being involved in the process is an unreasonable > expectation which can never be met. We need to teach our kids to > expect to protect themselves online the same way we teach them to look
We did this for about 15 years - without any success. If you look at some of the studies you will see that you can't teach that stuff to non-techies - sometimes not even to engineers. Let's compare it using an example from the not too far past: It has been claimed that most VCRs used to blink 12:00 but nevertheless they were sold and did what they should do: tape movies. This is similar to mail: Everyone is able to send and receive mail but most are not able to (set the VCR timer|encrypt the mails). Newer features in VCRs set the clock automatically and make the timer setting task much easier in the user interface (e.g. by selecting the title of the movie you want to tape from a electronic program magazine). This user experience is what we need to aim for. > both ways before crossing the street. Probably at the same age. That is easy because we have learned over thousands of years to use our senses to be safe. Our senses for those small electrons are not as matured as the the others. Why should they - we know about them only for maybe 300 years. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
