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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 773652">Nope.The reality is that most of the issues such as failures, bypass videos, exploits, IT security news reports, etc that create frenzied excitement on the security forums involves stuff that is unlikely to happen to the typical informed IT security enthusiast.The behavior of piling security softs on top of each other can be characterized in two broad, generalized categories of motivation:1. Because I want to2. Because I am fearfulNo one can deny that much of the activity on security forums is based almost exclusively on group 2; fear of infection, fear of tracking, fear of surveillance, fear of hacking, fear of data theft, etc. Much of that fear is the result of fear of the unknown, lack of understanding, lack of experience, etc. The way a lot of folks deal with these things is to over-compensate. More layers = greater security, right ? &quot;I&#039;m gonna bring a T-95 tank to a knife fight&quot; mentality.Despite the low probabilities, it is pointless to even try to get people to understand that much of what their fear is based upon is blown way, way out of proportion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 773652"] Nope. The reality is that most of the issues such as failures, bypass videos, exploits, IT security news reports, etc that create frenzied excitement on the security forums involves stuff that is unlikely to happen to the typical informed IT security enthusiast. The behavior of piling security softs on top of each other can be characterized in two broad, generalized categories of motivation: 1. Because I want to 2. Because I am fearful No one can deny that much of the activity on security forums is based almost exclusively on group 2; fear of infection, fear of tracking, fear of surveillance, fear of hacking, fear of data theft, etc. Much of that fear is the result of fear of the unknown, lack of understanding, lack of experience, etc. The way a lot of folks deal with these things is to over-compensate. More layers = greater security, right ? "I'm gonna bring a T-95 tank to a knife fight" mentality. Despite the low probabilities, it is pointless to even try to get people to understand that much of what their fear is based upon is blown way, way out of proportion. [/QUOTE]

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