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   There is a kind of hypnotised enchantment with technology that   
   bypasses our rational, thoughtful minds. And there is a lack of   
   widespread education such that people can recognise and politely   
   refuse premature, unreliable and dangerous technologies pushed at   
   them.   
      
   Behind the push is an intense momentum at the executive managerial and   
   policy level to drive technologies in the name of theoretical   
   "efficiency", technology that nobody actually wants, nobody trusts and   
   society cannot support in the long term. Who is behind that? The   
   people and companies that sell half-baked digital systems of course.   
      
   That, in itself, is a colossal cybersecurity problem! It's just not   
   one that involves cryptography or traditional hacking. These are Layer   
   8 (usability) and Layer 9: (politics) cybersecurity problems. They   
   exist in our culture as giddy, breathless attitudes of incautious   
   zealotry - often alongside a contempt for "experts and eggheads" who   
   urge more thoughtful progress.   
   Victim Blaming   
      
   In the UK, when things go wrong we parade the victims on TV. Rip Off   
   Britain is where sobbing mums robbed of their life savings break down   
   in interviews and say "I can't believe how stupid I am". It's victim   
   porn. It frightens people.   
      
   The message speaks only of evil fraudsters and victims. Never is the   
   technology itself, its providers and the reckless everyday practices   
   and policies we've become accustomed to actually questioned. We do not   
   hear;   
      
    Why did you send your passport in the post to a so-called "employer"?   
   Did you not know that the Home Office have said themselves that a   
   passport is not to be used as a casual identity document?   
      
       Why did you enter every detail of your life into a form, loyalty   
   card or device for legally dubious "food discounts" or a competition   
   to win cosmetics?   
      
       Why did you not insist on paying cash or walk out the store   
   instead of being bullied into using your bank card some place you felt   
   uncomfortable about it?   
      
   "Lazy technology" allows citizens to bully and exploit one another.   
   That's a stage of casual insecurity that exists long before it   
   accumulates into something fraudsters, blackmailers and ransomers can   
   use for graver harms. It weakens our:   
      
       self control and boundaries   
       situational awareness   
       operational and habitual security   
      
   Messages that the media feels comfortable giving to victims tepidly   
   align with the interests of "the industry". It keeps them subdued,   
   docile and deferential to technology which is made to appear   
   authoritative, scary, other-worldly, uncontrollable, and "inevitable".   
      
   We say;   
      
       It won't happen to me.   
       The technology must be safe because many people use it.   
       It must be safe because it's backed by a big company.   
       I don't really have a choice Technology-X is "essential to   
       participate in society now" (total rubbish - there is always   
      a slightly less convenient alternative).   
      
      
   - ALWAYS Check Downloads for Viruses -   
      
   Virus Total   
   Up-to-date browsers; https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload   
   Old Browsers: https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/   
      
   Jotti   
   https://virusscan.jotti.org/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)