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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 1079654" data-attributes="member: 19756"><p>For me, "techie" means knowing what those things in the system tray mean. It's like that article where a professor found out that his uni students did not know the concept of computer folders and files.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, this reminds of that default-deny issue: you're told that something needs to access the 'net or something like that. Allow or deny? Meanwhile, you're flooded with lots of work.</p><p></p><p>So you allow and it leads to havoc. Or you deny and it causes the system to crash. Or nothing happens, which means it's either safe or now doing something else in the background that's undesirable.</p><p></p><p>Then you're told that you're not "techie" enough, or not a techie at all, or that you should have learned even though you have no time to do so, or that you're computer-illiterate even though you're an expert in other things that are even more important, or that you should have followed "common sense" by not accessing "unsafe" sites or using "unsafe" software even though it turns out that you weren't doing that, or that you can always restore even thought that doesn't solve things like data theft, and so on.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, one begins to realize that security programs have to be increasingly complex and operate intelligently and independently as users access increasingly complex systems that they need but won't understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 1079654, member: 19756"] For me, "techie" means knowing what those things in the system tray mean. It's like that article where a professor found out that his uni students did not know the concept of computer folders and files. Meanwhile, this reminds of that default-deny issue: you're told that something needs to access the 'net or something like that. Allow or deny? Meanwhile, you're flooded with lots of work. So you allow and it leads to havoc. Or you deny and it causes the system to crash. Or nothing happens, which means it's either safe or now doing something else in the background that's undesirable. Then you're told that you're not "techie" enough, or not a techie at all, or that you should have learned even though you have no time to do so, or that you're computer-illiterate even though you're an expert in other things that are even more important, or that you should have followed "common sense" by not accessing "unsafe" sites or using "unsafe" software even though it turns out that you weren't doing that, or that you can always restore even thought that doesn't solve things like data theft, and so on. Ultimately, one begins to realize that security programs have to be increasingly complex and operate intelligently and independently as users access increasingly complex systems that they need but won't understand. [/QUOTE]
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