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by coldtea 3321 days ago
Failed on the users who took well to the training, or to those who ignored it/failed it?

Because we can always not care about those others in the context of what we should do.

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Failed to improve computer security overall. Users (generally speaking, not HN readers) don't have the skills/inclination/time to be proficient at managing their systems. Efforts to educate them in malware avoidance, system upkeep etc etc are failures by and large.

Technology can only do so much to "protect" users from themselves, and from miscreants. Couple this with an indifference to privacy on most of the connected population, and you've got a recipe for a world where nothing is safe.

http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye