<OT> War driveing for dollars....

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, koko wrote:

> If this is the wrong list to bring this up on please let me know.  I would
> love to hear any comments by those that work the floor, and those that
> "manage" between the floor and the executives about how available technology
> meets up with security.  This would include common sense security all the
> way to protection of corporate or government information.   To my dismay, I
> have found that younger people are not always necessarily adept with
> technology.  The point has been driven home with one of my children.  When I
> try to train and educate when they encounter a problem on my home network,
> some want to learn, and some treat me like a pizza guy or a plumber.  "Fix
> it and go away".  The exact same situation exists with some of our
> executives.  10 years ago, I was hoping that as younger people accessed
> technology, my security concerns would begin to go away.  I thought they
> would understand more, realize the dangers etc.   Its worse than ever, with
> PDAs, Blackberrys, accessing corporate/govt information from home, and so
> on.

Because these days kids dont need to know anything beyond knowing which
Windoze icon to double click. (Most of the older folks lived through 8 bit
micros, DOS, umpteen Windoze versions, Linux and/or UNIX so they have a
much broader range of experience to draw upon). Security isn't even on the
radar (if it were, everyone would have a firewall and up-to-date AV
software).

Similarly, I believe the F7 key in M$ Word is responsible for a decline in
spelling standards among young people today. Dumb it down and then make
the users dependant on corporate progaganda - that's what its all about
now...



-- 
Aj.