Study says much computer security advice is not worth following

[MrBrian]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id...your_password/

Now, a study has concluded what lots of us have long suspected: Many of these irritating security measures are a waste of time. The study, by a top researcher at Microsoft, found that instructions intended to spare us from costly computer attacks often exact a much steeper price in the form of user effort and time expended.

[nanana1]

Nice article find !... thanks for sharing

[BlueZannetti]

If you want to take a read of the original work, jump over to Cormac Herley and take a peek at C. Herley, "So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users," NSPW 2009, Oxford. (pdf format).

Blue

[Dogbiscuit]

Great piece of common sense.