Heartbleed - Your comments about the Newsletter

[theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch]

Am 06.05.2014 10:10, schrieb Matthias Kirschner:
> I am interested in your feedback about the Heartbleed part of the May
> Newsletter <https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201405.en.html>:
>
>
>   == Heartbleed and economic incentives ==
>
> You probably heard about the bug in the Free Software OpenSSL nicknamed
...

Good article, Matthias! But: it is also about human laziness. This 
applies certainly to me. One of the reasons I never used Windows much 
was the vulnerability to viri and the perceived requirement to use 
virus-sanners. With Linux I have never used any security measures other 
than a NAT router and never knowingly experienced any malware, while my 
Windows-aquaintences were often experiencing infected systems in spite 
of using anti-virus software.

Therefore, I have never bothered to encrypt anything, have keys but 
never use them, etc. Therefore I expect people will not bother with 
security until it becomes really easy.

Cheers, Theo