Men Overconfident About How Secure They Are Online
from the the-internet-is-no-place-to-pretend dept
This probably won't come as much of a surprise, but a new study shows that guys are much more likely than women to overestimate how secure their computers really are. The truth, however, is that both men and women are usually equally vulnerable. Of course, the study was paid for by a security company, so you might want to take it with a grain of salt. For example, while it talks about vulnerabilities, it doesn't seem to say who is actually getting infected with malware more often.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I take chances
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Re: Paranoid Ass Article
A Network Engineer in SA.
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If that works for you, that's fine, but please don't tell others to do the same. Everyone may not be as "smart" as you are. And identity theft is indeed a real thing that happens, whether you believe it or not.
I run antivirus. It's nice and light (they're not all bloated garbage like Norton, et al) and barely affects my computer. Fortunately I have never needed it, never encountered malware "in the wild" so to speak, but who knows, some day I might.
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Malware idea
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This brings whole new meaning to "I Pee address".
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Not too worried...
From personal experiences, I have noticed that teenagers and women are the primary demographics for virus and malware infections, simply because of the sites they visit and their average knowledge of computers.
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Re: Not too worried...
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Personal Network Security
Just remember the only safe computer is the one with out a network connection, and you don't use.
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Hidden Security?
The site in question is
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdo
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Re: Hidden Security?
Since this is something that is probably going to deal with HIPA regulations since this is a medical facility that you are talking about. They probably don't want you accessing that information that easily or at all from your home PC.
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NOAA info
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/ncdchelp.html#FREE
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The only safe computer is one that is not plugged into an electrical outlet and is in a secure room by itself.
There is a command you can send to a computer power supply thru the electrical outlet to have it turn on the computer.
So the next time you are at a yard sale and see a computer for sale sitting on a picnic table you are looking at the worlds most secure computer! (as long as it is not plugged into the power grid).
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Just "proving" the obvious
Dr. Laura speaking on this attitude difference simply stated that, given any situation, men don't worry about details as much as woman. So on the issue of computers and security, men are "confident" that they know what they are doing and are simply not as worried. Delusions are wonderful!
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seems to me that just about every piece of hardware connected to the network has.. one option you didnt know about.
How loose or tight u run your security depends on what u do with your computer or files,
first lesson you cant F*^* it up if it's off !
My Point: Survey 100 men ask them what they did for an hour on ther computer... and your have 900 hours of porn & 100 hours of i tried to speed up my computer so i could get porn Faster...
Survey 100 women an you'd get... 900 hours of my e-mails not working right... and 100 hrs of honey can u fix it..
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Moving this discussion back to the article....
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