“Human instinct lags in most of the places where cyberspace is swelling and ramifying.” Ari Juels, March 2010
The source of this quote was an article pointing out the lack of cyberspace security. What really made the article interesting was the fact that emphasis to improve cyber security was not placed on new security technologies. The finger pointing for weak cyber security was aimed at the lack of instinctual social interaction that navigating cyberspace has failed to provide. For the majority of human existence, communication and trust has been obtained by using social cues and relying on effectively evolved human instinct. Then along came the internet, and in a blink of an eye humanity turned to an electronic online world to conduct a large percentage of daily activities; everything from banking to simple email. This really hinders the 250,000 years or so of human instinct that has been carefully crafted to understand and interpret social interactions.
Essentially, the point seems to be that the human factor is needed far beyond social networks, emails, and blogs; online privacy and security also needs important human instincts to be properly maintained and managed. Unfortunately, humanity hasn’t been an able to adapt fast enough to keep up with the cyber world. This has allowed an alarming number of people to be taken advantage of in both cyberspace and the real world. The masses need to be cognizant about humanity not being fully equipped instinctually to handle the intricacies of the cyber world.
Juels, A. (2010). "Future Tense: The Primal Cue." . Communications of the ACM, 53(3) , 120-119.
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