alt Hacker News> A lot of people just think laptop == laptop.
We are talking about highly educated people who work in software development (i.e. can assumed to have some minimum viable knowledge about computers), and not about the dumbest imaginable users.
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SWE's are the worst about security, I swear most are worse than the average person when it comes to security practices.
"Need some new software" = "Download it from some random website"
"Software won't run" = "Turn off AV and get it everything permission"
"Still won't run" = "run as root"
It's an anecdote, but one of my coworkers has Steam installed on his MacBook (of all computers). He is a data scientist. Technically, we're only allowed to install software from an approved list maintained by the IT security team. They clearly aren't enforcing that policy, though.
> We are talking about highly educated people
That's a bit of charity isn't it? Lot's of people in tech that really not that clever even if they are smart. Also, people in HR aren't as tech savvy.
Educated != smart
Plenty of software engineeers (and doctors, lawyers, scientists...) are geniuses in their field but have zero common sense.
Thanks for the laughs.
No, 'people who work in software development' != 'highly educated people' and those both != 'understand how computers work'.
> highly educated people who work in software development
> dumbest imaginable users.
They are often one and the same.
> Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
-Darth Vader.
Being able to make React components does not require you to be smarter than the average person.
You also have multiple types of intelligence. I worked with a brilliant intern once. The kid was over 100k in student loan debt and didn’t know the loans can’t get discharged.