RE: The home user problem returns

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Tina Bird wrote:
> if your "aware"
> population follows a couple of obvious rules (install patches*; run an AV
> and maybe a PFW**), they're more than likely not gonna get hammered by the
> vicious mindless auto-propagating crap. so all of a sudden your disease
> isn't rampaging.

Nope. Because the network is down, the users that have gotten clobbered
are all standing around the coffee machine drinking coffee and whining instead
of working, and the "smart" people who defended themselves will have to:
a) fix the dumb people's computers
b) pick up the slack in productivity while the dumb people are down
c) have dumb people complaining to them
d) lose their minds

What I am trying to get across to you is that stupidity is multiplicative
whereas smart is incremental. Dumbness can rapidly go non-linear and
the Internet is an amplifier for dumbness. That's why blogs are going to
be the end of the world. ;)

mjr.

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