Re: Who holds the keys to your data?

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:57:00 -0700 (MST), Alan Dayley
<alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:

> many people cannot get to the financial data on their local hard drive.

I've seen hackers auth their home box through ASU's kerberos :).

On the other hand, I've also seen end users that are confused by folders,
files, programs, .... heck, I've seen people that get confused by a
dual-switch light in their kitchen.

"Okay. I can fix your computer, but I'm going to have to reload. That
means I'll be wiping your hard drive clean."
"Oh great, you can fix it!"
"I can back up your files, but you'll have to reload your programs."
"Great!"
"Is that okay? You'll be okay with reloading your programs?"
"Sure! No problem!"
"That means you'll have to reinstall Quicken."
"Oh my goodness...."
"and Office."
"Oh no!"
"and any other programs"
"Oh NOOO!"

I believe people like this are BETTER served letting other people do their
security and organizing.

Look at it this way. Somebody out there is actually trying to tackle the
problem of organizing for the unorganized, and security for the guy who
sets all passwords to 'password'. And succeeding. To a degree.

"JUST FRIKKIN PICK A PASSWORD!" Nope. They won't do it. Any more than
the guy who's eaten 4,000 calories a day in food and 2,000 calories a day
in liquor for fifty years will change. The doctor just does the bypass,
takes the money, gives the advice, and sends him on his way. Only in this
case, doctors actually have the power to shunt millions of human bodies to
automatically eliminate the bad stuff, without people being wiser. You
think if doctors had that power they wouldn't use it? Even if people are
"less free"? I know how to live without the shunt, and I'm stronger for
it. Others don't. I try to give some advice, but if they don't take it,
oh well. It would be nice if everyone knew how to live without the shunt,
we'd have a really really strong population. But instead we choose to
merely have a strong population instead of a half dead one, with some
really really really strong people in the mix.

--

--Alexander
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