There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that
people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about
the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download,
or whatever it is they are planning to share.
There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and scary. But the
campaign won’t do much to improve cybersecurity. The advice isn’t reasonable, it
won’t make either individuals or nations appreciably safer, and it deflects
blame from the real causes of our cyberspace insecurities...