Yesterday while listening to the security panel’s discussion for LT Pact there seemed to be a common theme: end-users want security, but they don’t want to be inconvenienced or do anything to do something about it. It seemed like the only way a person learned about security was when it was too late, they had a serious problem, and serious losses were occurred. So I had an idea: why not have a visitor to a website take a quick questionnaire, just some simple questions to find out what type of user they are and at what risk they are at. After a few questions it would show stories of real experiences of people with similar situations and the devastating affects they had when being compromised.
While this is a semi large project, and I don’t have time to dedicate to it at the moment (my boss would kill me if I did), I bought the domain WhySecurity.org and will be putting up a little blog there for the time being. Once I find a handful of other people willing to help pull together the content I’ll start actually working on the system. If you are interested please email me at justin (AT) justincarmony.com.
Justin Carmony 