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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1119263" data-attributes="member: 114717">Common sense. Right?Let&#039;s all take a moment and do a break-down analysis of home users and why they - as a demographic cohort - receive the least amount of default security from Windows, and by extension, Microsoft. In other words, the one category of users that needs the greatest amount of security receives the least.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Home users are &quot;users that want to use stuff,&quot; and even though Microsoft knows this digital use paradigm is dinosaur thinking, Microsoft allows home users to do what they want because they will cry and complain. Another way to state it is &quot;Microsoft does not want to be bothered by home users.&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Every single time Microsoft has attempted to make Windows effectively secure, it is home users that unravel Microsoft&#039;s efforts via the crying and complaining campaigns.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Security is not software, but that is the solution the world has come up with to protect a group of users who are lazy, do not care, and cannot be bothered to use their brain. I know will see that as harsh, but it is true of the vast majority of people globally. Illiterate folk living in isolated villages in Dagestan or the Mongolian steppes (yes, they have electricity and internet), they get a pass. Everybody else does not.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Globally, digital insecurity is a pandemic and yet there is no willingness to fix the problems once and for all. Instead, the costs of losses are passed onto all consumers and other buyers of services and goods.</li>
</ul>The most ludicrous argument of all is that if security blocks something a home user is attempting to do, then the security is wrong and the user is right. The user cannot be bothered to have to troubleshoot.Humanity will never be capable of saving itself.Security is not software. It is a process (that requires users to do stuff). Oh no. The lions, the tigers, the bears... we cannot expect users to do anything... Oh My.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1119263, member: 114717"] Common sense. Right? Let's all take a moment and do a break-down analysis of home users and why they - as a demographic cohort - receive the least amount of default security from Windows, and by extension, Microsoft. In other words, the one category of users that needs the greatest amount of security receives the least. [LIST] [*]Home users are "users that want to use stuff," and even though Microsoft knows this digital use paradigm is dinosaur thinking, Microsoft allows home users to do what they want because they will cry and complain. Another way to state it is "Microsoft does not want to be bothered by home users." [*]Every single time Microsoft has attempted to make Windows effectively secure, it is home users that unravel Microsoft's efforts via the crying and complaining campaigns. [*]Security is not software, but that is the solution the world has come up with to protect a group of users who are lazy, do not care, and cannot be bothered to use their brain. I know will see that as harsh, but it is true of the vast majority of people globally. Illiterate folk living in isolated villages in Dagestan or the Mongolian steppes (yes, they have electricity and internet), they get a pass. Everybody else does not. [*]Globally, digital insecurity is a pandemic and yet there is no willingness to fix the problems once and for all. Instead, the costs of losses are passed onto all consumers and other buyers of services and goods. [/LIST] The most ludicrous argument of all is that if security blocks something a home user is attempting to do, then the security is wrong and the user is right. The user cannot be bothered to have to troubleshoot. Humanity will never be capable of saving itself. Security is not software. It is a process (that requires users to do stuff). Oh no. The lions, the tigers, the bears... we cannot expect users to do anything... Oh My. [/QUOTE]

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