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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 707766">Until security is as simple and as reliable as a wind-up alarm clock for Average Joe, it is never going to work. Never. And that means bringing the overly-complex attack-surface way back down to Earth.People don&#039;t want to hear this and it causes a wide array of spit-flying reactions.Digital devices and PCs are way too feature-packed for end-user needs. This has always been the case. Marketing versus what people actually need. Remember the VCRs of the days of old ? &quot;Let&#039;s market VCRs with 218 button remotes and prominently feature the remotes in all our marketing materials.&quot; That&#039;s the logic. Pack a huge number of features in that only a handful of technofiles will use, but no Average Joe ever will use and exposes everybody to greatly increased security risks. It didn&#039;t matter that people couldn&#039;t figure out what buttons 6 though 218 did. All that mattered was that the more buttons there were on the remotes, the more VCRs that flew off the shelves. More buttons = more features. Of course we&#039;re not talking about security here, but the concept of increasing features that people don&#039;t need. That principle is still at work in the digital device \ PC world.And as far as a general operating system like Windows, it isn&#039;t needed. All that attack surface is absolutely unneeded and a completely preventable security risk.Use Chromebook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 707766"] Until security is as simple and as reliable as a wind-up alarm clock for Average Joe, it is never going to work. Never. And that means bringing the overly-complex attack-surface way back down to Earth. People don't want to hear this and it causes a wide array of spit-flying reactions. Digital devices and PCs are way too feature-packed for end-user needs. This has always been the case. Marketing versus what people actually need. Remember the VCRs of the days of old ? "Let's market VCRs with 218 button remotes and prominently feature the remotes in all our marketing materials." That's the logic. Pack a huge number of features in that only a handful of technofiles will use, but no Average Joe ever will use and exposes everybody to greatly increased security risks. It didn't matter that people couldn't figure out what buttons 6 though 218 did. All that mattered was that the more buttons there were on the remotes, the more VCRs that flew off the shelves. More buttons = more features. Of course we're not talking about security here, but the concept of increasing features that people don't need. That principle is still at work in the digital device \ PC world. And as far as a general operating system like Windows, it isn't needed. All that attack surface is absolutely unneeded and a completely preventable security risk. Use Chromebook. [/QUOTE]

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