"The Hard Way to Learn That the Internet Is Not Disneyland" (NY Times)

Brent Staples’ Op-Ed piece sums it up nicely:

“Average Americans tend to see the Internet as safer and more secure than it is partly because they operated under a simplified notion of what the Net is.”

Let’s hope MyDoom has tossled a few more folks into awareness of the threats they face. Hope for it, but cover your bets for your own systems and networks just in case. The next threat’s usually only a few net hops away…