(courtesy Professor Sharon Ng)
This is another post about internet security, and like many of my other posts on the subject, it is not going to offer much in the way of useful advise. If that's what you're looking for, stop reading now.Instead, this is going to be more in line with You Have Already Lost and Trusting the Web. But now with some Psychiatry!! (Or, at least, pseudo-psychiatry, because you just can't have enough silent p's.) Over the holidays, I stumbled upon the 'You Are Not So Smart' Podcast and listened to a few episodes. The one that caught my attention was "Learned Helplessness". It is not the happiest of subjects, but it is one that struck me as applicable to the topic of internet security (and my attitudes towards relationships and commitment and basically all of my social interactions since grade school).
