Abstract
Despite Windows’ history of being very insecure and a hotbed for malware and viruses, this really isn’t true any more. It’s also not true that the security systems in Windows 8.1 are annoying, or lacking in flexibility, or difficult to use.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
In the comedy science-fiction book, Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Pan Macmillan, 1982), an SEP field is described as “something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem ... The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won’t see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye.”
The technology involved in making something properly invisible is so mind-bogglingly complex that 999,999,999 times out of a billion it’s simpler just to take the thing away and do without it. The “Somebody Else’s Problem field” is much simpler, more effective, and “can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery.”
This is because it relies on people’s natural predisposition not to see anything they don’t want to, weren’t expecting, or can’t explain.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Mike Halsey
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Halsey, M. (2013). Keeping You, Your Files, and Your Computer Safe. In: Beginning Windows 8.1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6359-3_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6359-3_11
Published:
Publisher Name: Apress, Berkeley, CA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4302-6358-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4302-6359-3
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied ComputingApress Access BooksProfessional and Applied Computing (R0)