Stop using computer jargons, it hinders security: Experts
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 00:38 IST   |    1 Comments
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Stop using computer jargons, it hinders security: Experts
Brussels: Cyber security experts from around the world met to discuss how to protect computer users from the growing problem of online theft, fraud, vandalism, abuse and espionage. One problem is that computer "geeks" use jargon to cloak their work in scholarly mystique, resulting in a lack of clarity in everything from instruction manuals and systems design to professional training, the experts said, according to Reuters. "If you don't demystify security, people become anxious about it and don't want to do it. There are some people in the profession who to some degree enjoy the mystification of what they do, that it's not penetrable. It's almost a sense of superiority," former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Reuters on the sidelines of the EastWest Institute security meeting in Brussels. Plain language is vital, said Steve Purser, head of Technical Competence at the European Network and Information Security Agency, a European Union body. "We use a lot of complex terminology where it's not needed. We don't encourage people to think enough. We give people the impression ... that everything is about pushing the right button at the right time. But if someone is out to attack you, they are going to use their brain to do it. They are going to think how to get round the system," he said. Delegates said imaginative messages explaining the importance of online protection are needed, tailored to different age groups and audiences and posted on media ranging from TV advertising and schools curriculums to Youtube, Second Life, social network sites and video games.

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