Schneier warns Microsoft over Vista security
Security guru Bruce Schneier has warned that Microsoft will be making a mistake by overloading Windows Vista users with security alerts.
Schneier, who has written some of the most important books on cryptography and security practice, told vnunet.com at the Infosec show that users will become inured to constant warning messages and will stop reading them after a while.
Vista has a host of warning boxes planned, including ones for unauthorised access, unsafe websites and malware alerts.
"These warning messages are a mistake. The users will not be able to interpret what the warnings mean and make an intelligent decision," said Schneier.
"After four, five, a dozen, a hundred warnings you stop reading them. The messages become an annoyance and you click on them so you can carry on and do your thing."
Education would help, he explained, but the vast majority of computer users are not computer people and just use PCs as a tool.L33tdawg: Bruce Schneier will be one of our keynote speaker at the upcoming HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia deep knowledge security conference. Mr. Schneier will deliver the opening keynote on the 20th of September 2006.
