Reply to post: "Remind me later"

If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it

Robert Carnegie Silver badge

"Remind me later"

https://xkcd.com/1328/

Actually here's how I see it: Most computer users don't actually understand the messages that their computer pops up - even the ones that say "A web site unexpectedly wants to take your credit card number. Y/N" So they just hit Y, because otherwise they don't get to do the fun things.

Also - in the workplace, all too often, your IT department hasn't got things quite right, and you are instructed to click on "I accept the risk of catastrophic data exposure" every day when you log in.

In... at least one workplace I have known.

So the message is - ignore the message.

It's not right, is it.

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