"Has the last 3 decades of personal computing taught people NOTHING?"
More like at least 5 decades of the computing industry. A friend who worked in the IT industry for 40 years has just proved me yet again a Cassandra. In her professional life she was punctilious about data security.
After looking after her family's IT needs for about 20 years - she decided that the last two laptop purchases were now commodity buys that needn't involve me. This week one was presented to me with glum shame to sort out a BSOD. In spite of my repeated warnings about making initial system images - there are no backups. Turns out the twenty-something child had ignored all the AV expiry warnings. The Microsoft Office 2013 will probably have to be purchased again if a total re-install is needed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
