Countdown to Sixty – Part 2: The Hardest Obstacle to Decent Security? Human Stupidity.
🎂🧠🎸 Countdown to Sixty – Part 2 is live 🧯🛰️ Birthday countdown update: T-minus a few days until I officially qualify as vintage hardware.I need to publish this before age hits the Delete key on my short-term memory. Today’s topic? The single toughest obstacle to decent security: human stupidity—not “not knowing”, but not knowing while loudly pretending you do. In forty years I’ve watched Web 2.0 deliver a cultural revolution (not a technical one): everyone became a publisher, the algorithm handed out megaphones, and confident error went viral. Add developers racing deadlines (hello COM+ era turning off security to ship…

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