Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:30:39 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:12:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> > True or not, I think users care about their private data, like
> > passwords, credit card numbers or even private photos, and their
> > ignorance is hurting the whole internet community (spambots).
> > 
> 
> Ignorance is exactly it. I think most users have no idea how
> vulnerable they really are *AND* if they actually were made to
> understand that, there would be a significant change in the way people
> view computers. 

But we all know at least one company with big influence on the users
that does not want them to change views.

Regards,
Andrei
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