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Are we mentally adapted to on-line security?

Posted by William Heath in Humanity nature and activity, human error, psychology at February 11th, 2007

Bruce Schneier has a piece on the psychology of security, and our ability to make tradeoffs.

The truth is that we’re not hopelessly bad at making security trade-offs. We are very well adapted to dealing with the security environment endemic to hominids living in small family groups on the highland plains of East Africa. It’s just that the environment in New York in 2006 is different from Kenya circa 100,000 BC. And so our feeling of security diverges from the reality of security, and we get things wrong.

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