The point is well taken, but I disagree with your default position. It is important to at least understand enough about security to make an informed choice—if you don’t have any methods available, by the time you know you need them it will be irrevocably too late. Some common activities in this community which have strong security implications:
Running a start-up
Running a website
Intellectual property
The don’t-post-everything-on-Facebook heuristic is not satisfactory in any of those cases.
The “Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.” heuristic is pretty impractical for any of your three cases too tho.
The point is well taken, but I disagree with your default position. It is important to at least understand enough about security to make an informed choice—if you don’t have any methods available, by the time you know you need them it will be irrevocably too late. Some common activities in this community which have strong security implications:
Running a start-up
Running a website
Intellectual property
The don’t-post-everything-on-Facebook heuristic is not satisfactory in any of those cases.
The “Don’t write up anything on a computer that would be bad if the wrong people knew, eventually.” heuristic is pretty impractical for any of your three cases too tho.