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.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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,
interesting-people.org - Informationen zum Thema interesting people.
(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.