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Originally Posted by Hank
But it makes no odds to me and OC it should make no odds to anyone else because Webwise gives NOTHING AT ALL to the customer which they cannot get for free elsewhere without having someone spying on their every action.
Hank
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Having mulled it over a bit this afternoon, bearing in mind the popular tag line is that WebWise gives good default protection for those who are not tech-savvy. I see that as also not only just having no added benefit, but actually hazardous and potentially harmful to the non tech-savvy.
We know that WebWise flags up only known phishing sites - it makes no claim of identifying sites that have malicious downoads, use browser exploits or give large amounts of spam etc. So that is really only one specific sector of today's on-line threat base. The danger I see is that the non tech-savvy people *may* think "I have WebWise protecting me, I don't need to look for any other protection". That has the potential of givng the most vulnerable poeple a very dangerous false sense of net security. That doesn't help the non tech savvy, I believe that harms them.
N.B I apologise for excessive use of the term 'non tech-savvy', couldn't think of anything appropriate to replace it with. I would be hopeless on Radio 4's Just a Minute.