Logging on to a website used to be a simple task: enter your username and password. Now the need to keep hackers out has made logging on so difficult one wonders whether it’s worth it at all.
Internet Security Is So Good It’s Even Safe From You
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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There’s an old tech-support diagnosis, “The problem exists between the keyboard and the chair.” So long as humans are using the computer, they will do stupid things.
Luckily, I can protect you and your computer from hackers – simply send me your bank account number and monther’s maiden name …
The lady in the cartoon is more than usually considerate – the retirees I help with their computer problems generally threaten to throw their machines out the window, irrespective of the danger to the lives of passersby below….. 😉
Henri
Naturally it is only at the front-end where security is beefed up.
Your back-end penetrability is their business model.
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“Your back-end penetrability is their business model.”
Truly excellent … at several different levels!!!!
It goes right to the top of my list of “best I-net quotes.”
I would only ask that we not limit “their” to high tech only but take this formulation as the essence of the capitalist business model.
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Please state your credit card number, mac-address of your phone, and your mother’s maiden name 😉
«Your back-end penetrability is their business model.» Thieves crying «Stop thief !», as in the current US government accusations against a competitor they seem unable to match….
Henri