'solution can only come from a ground-up awareness through education'
Average consumer cannot be responsible for security. Not because they are uneducated but becauae corporations have physicall talen away control from us.
You have no control over software running on your router supplied by the internet company, wifi printer, smart toaster, tesla or what crapware is preinstalled on your phone (often you can't even update it)
So since they took away control, they shoupd be held financially accountable
> because corporations have physically taken away control from us.
The solution of ground-up awareness and education I am suggesting
involves making sure people understand they must take that back. The
tag-line for the final chapter of my book is "Taking back tech" [1]
> You have no control over software....
Well, actually you do, but it is insufficient, and moreover others
have control over it which they should not. Legislation can fix this,
but legislation requires an educated user base first. Many folks don't
know how they are being abused, or even that they are being abused.
This is the project of a new digital literacy.
Digital literacy 1.0 was about "the amazing things computers can do"
Digital literacy 2.0 is about "the dangerous things computers
shouldn't do"
> So since they took away control, they should be held financially
accountable
I don't think money is a factor in this. The questions revolve around
fundamental rights, responsibilities, ownership and control, One
cannot buy or sell such obligations.
Average consumer cannot be responsible for security. Not because they are uneducated but becauae corporations have physicall talen away control from us.
You have no control over software running on your router supplied by the internet company, wifi printer, smart toaster, tesla or what crapware is preinstalled on your phone (often you can't even update it)
So since they took away control, they shoupd be held financially accountable