{"id":695,"date":"2006-10-13T01:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=695"},"modified":"2006-10-18T01:45:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:45:37","slug":"security-expert-user-education-is-pointless-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/security-expert-user-education-is-pointless-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Security expert: User education is pointless &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Security+expert+User+education+is+pointless\/2100-7350_3-6125213.html?tag=alert\">Security expert: User education is pointless | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL&#8211;Forget about teaching computer users how to be safe online.<\/p>\n<p>Users are often called the weakest link in computer security. They can&#8217;t select secure passwords, and they write down passwords and give them out to strangers in exchange for treats. They use old or outdated security software, can&#8217;t spell the word &#8220;phishing,&#8221; and click on all links that arrive in e-mail or instant messages, and all that appear on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the reality, Stefan Gorling, a doctoral student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, said in a talk at the Virus Bulletin conference here Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security expert: User education is pointless | CNET News.com For more info click on above link MONTREAL&#8211;Forget about teaching computer users how to be safe online. Users are often called the weakest link in computer security. They can&#8217;t select secure passwords, and they write down passwords and give them out to strangers in exchange for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29,30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}