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Human Nature vs. Security
Daniel Hanson, 2004-03-29

Social engineering in the latest crop of viruses has people jumping through hoops to open malicious attachments. How do we change the pattern?

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Nice summary of the problem, but where's the solution? 2004-04-06
Anonymous
The "solution" is to be patient and wait for a virus/worm to be released which wipes the users drive clean. When all you can do for your users is to re-install their OS, and they have lost all of their data, it might begin to sink in.

This sounds about right to me. Users are known to run email ...

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