Whats the biggest security problem with browsers today?
One of the things most difficult about browser security is that all browsers are designed to take content from an unknown site, and some of that content is going to be executable. Whether it’s a Java applet or a Java script or ActiveX control, it’s executing on a user’s browser. You’re enabling these robust applications on the Internet, this rich Web experience, while keeping the user and the machine safe. That’s a pretty difficult thing for all of us to do. Software exists to support some function that enables a user or business. It’s not for security to dictate to what the user should do. That’s not how it should work. IT keeps warning users to be cautious and not open attachments from unknown senders, for example. But users keep on doing it. Are users just dumb, as some experts say? Users are not dumb. I get upset when I hear that. They’re trying to accomplish a task. If the security interface gets in the way, or if the security interface isn’t easy to understand, they’re going to g
