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Jan 11 2008, 08:48 AM
| | A very good article titled "Security Common Sense" in gnucitizen.org
Below is the link to that article
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/security-common-sense
Website Link
http://www.gnucitizen.org
"We basically train a bunch of monkeys to click the yes button for every security warning."
Don't you think many of us fall under the category?
because most of the time we do not see what the dialog says, but press Yes, which might not treat you well sometimes...
A good read. |
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