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Sounds like you're a good sysadmin and mentor. There's no possible way you should have to take on the burden of schooling everyone. You probably already go far beyond the call of duty.

What we need to do with Digital Self Defence is raise awareness of civic cyber-security needs from school ages 5 upwards (My government in the UK have started on this project). We also need to screen for digital literacy.

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I admire your positive view on people but I feel like you vastly overestimates both the ability to learn and the willingness to care of a huge chunk of the population. If we talk about corporate environments with hundreds of thousands of employees, you will absolutely always have malicious or drunk or just plain uncaring people that will not care at all what happens when they click that one blinking link in that one special email from the long lost relative.

The goal to teach people how technology works is admirable and necessary, but it is no defence against a motivated attacker. The attackers will always have a massive information advantage just because they have so much more time to aquire it.

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