I’ve got a friend I know from college. We where gonna do a movie night and I offered her access to my server that contains all my very legally attained media.
Said she’ll have to decline because of “security concerns with work and everything”. Apparently if she watches Shakma the dastardly Chinese spies will steal company secrets.
The absolute state of Americans.
This sounds like just general computer ignorance and fear which is pretty common among people who aren’t terribly informed but have been given security training and over-extend any (sometimes dubious) lessons from that.
Or her work has software on her computer and she’s worried they’d catch her doing that and get in trouble. Problem is many such people just aren’t interested in the 10 minutes it takes to become educated by a friend on that and will shrug off attempts at explaining it because computers are scary.
Absolutely true. Most are totally uneducated and have no interest in becoming more knowledgeable.
In this case tho… this person has a PhD in a technical field and I think writes code as a major part of their job. so presumably understands computer not scary but who knows. I guess that makes the fear that the boss would find out the most likely one.
Getting a PhD erases all knowledge not specifically related to the PhD
It is known.
That or they just have some sort of philosophical aversion to piracy but don’t want to say that so made up an excuse.
But I’ve also met too many people who are technically very educated who don’t understand basic things. Who would totally believe that watching a movie like that could lead to the police raiding them.
I’ve seen programmers, lead programmers, professors who don’t understand Windows settings or how to set up a home network or VPN or do advanced troubleshooting of an OS or hardware problem. They have very narrow skill-sets, they’re not enthusiasts in computers like some stereotypical 90s nerd who poke around and truly understand all aspects of it, they’re just people who work on them and have some knowledge to do specific things and think that makes them hot shit.
Gotta agree with that all. People being good at one thing does not make em experts in everything else. Even related fields.
Definitely wondering this myself. All my other friends are like ohh yes please link to server please.