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Mozilla's Plugin Check

Mozilla's Plugin Check

Posted Jun 14, 2010 12:15 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112)
Parent article: Mozilla's Plugin Check

User education is an important part of keeping systems secure.

I take a different view, that a security system which requires more than the most basic education of users is doomed to failure. Tasks like keeping software up to date are best left to software engineers and the automation software they create.

If a software task needs to be done consistently, repeatably and on time, it is best left to computers, rather than humans.


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