Eddy Nigg wrote:
[...]
Every time I come from shopping it's very inconvenient to put down the
shopping bags, grab for my keys and open the front door of my house.
Then pick up my bags again. After entering I have to lock the door again
(by convenience, if I want). But overall, what an inconvenience...why
did they put a door and lock there?
The pratical result of inconvenience is a threshold level that depends
of two factor : the inconvenience and the perceived threat.
Once the level of inconvenience is higher than the perceived threat
people stop applying the security mesure.
*Many* people do not lock their door after entering because the
perceived level of risk is lower than the inconvenience.
In small villages, many people do not lock their door at all.
When people stop using a security feature because the inconvenience is
higher than the perceived security, you can indeed play on two factors
to correct this, either lower the inconvenience or highten the perceived
risk.
It's not uncommon to see some people only and systematically play the
second card.
But please do consider that when the inconvenience is something that
people meet every day, it's extremly hard to play the second card high
enough so that it's still effective.
The only way might be at a point to tranform the potential risk to an
actual risk by going and using the weakness to hack their computer.
But even if you'd do that, you might only be showing them you are a
nasty person, and not that's it's a real risk.
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