Report Concludes Internet Privacy Tools Are Confusing

[Guest]

Browser developers as well as security software makers need to make the features of privacy tools much more transparent to the average user, a study by Carnegie Mellon concluded.

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[de5_Roy]

the hell? mozilla and adblock are quite easy to understand and configure.
ie otoh is really confusing. it is even more confusing with the advanced settings.
and most cyber criminal relentlessly attack ie.
browser should just publish softwares that have privacy settings cranked up all the way to the highest settings out of the box.(which they never will because it will cost them (ad, sponsor, data harvesting) money.)

 

[memadmax]

oh oh, I hear nanny state....

Anyways, FF+adblock+noscript=win.

I haven't had a browser attack in quite sometime now, and have even trashed my AV and OS firewall in favor of my router hardware based firewall last week.

 

[dfusco]

You can't fix stupid...

 

[jacobdrj]

Douglas: Your thumbnail should have been a picture of a blue sky and green grass...

 

[Guest]

anything involving security is confusing, because it is not simply just the technology, it's a discipline

 

[Guest]

How about educate users. Not everything out there in IT land can "just work". Car owners know to change oil rotate tires and all that preventative maintenence, and if they can't do it themselves they pay for the service to be done. Same thing in IT either learn or pay a professional to harden your system for you.

 

[eddieroolz]

I could've told you without all the research. Obviously people are going to have issues understanding security; they still have issues understanding how computers even work.

 

[casand]

Internet privacy tools are confusing because it is more complicated enough.