security awareness – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Thu, 29 May 2025 07:24:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/30/why-take9-wont-improve-cybersecurity/ Fri, 30 May 2025 11:05:16 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=70302 There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share.

There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and scary. But the campaign won’t do much to improve cybersecurity. The advice isn’t reasonable, it won’t make either individuals or nations appreciably safer, and it deflects blame from the real causes of our cyberspace insecurities...

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