You Can't Teach Normal Users About Security

Expecting people to reason outside of their experiences when confronted with a suspicious situation on their PCs probably isn't going to work out well.

Thank you Bruce Schneier. It's a painful truth he's spoken about people and computer security in an excerpt of an optimism bias that often motivates people to take a risk where they should not. This hinders their decision making, and in computer security can mean clicking a link, downloading something, or sending money electronically to a Nigerian prince so he can get even more money out of a bank and share it with his new friend.

As we have harped on a few times, security for networked machines must be pushed out to the gateway. If an

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