Most Americans don’t have a clue what https:// means

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Oh yeah?!

Well, most https://'s don’t have a clue what "Americans" means...

;-)

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Americans are Russian spies, I learned a lot from the tellie ;^ )

[–]Reddit_sucks_dick 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't need to know what a torque converter is, to drive a car with an automatic transmission.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You don't even need to know for driving stick, but secured transmission of data is pretty essential on open/public wifi which are in use by common people.

Although the 'secure' icons in browsers do have the other problem of telling people a site is 'secure' while it only means the data transmissions are encrypted, not that the site isn't a phishing site. Like knowing that the 'oil empty' sign doesn't mean you need more gasoline. Or something, I don't know, I can't and don't do cars ;p

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

secured transmission of data

Excellent pun. +A.

Top notch response.

[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

Why the gratuitous bashing of Americans? Feel good?

[–]Mnemonic[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

It's a research done in America:

The Pew Research Center conducted a survey which tested Americans and their digital knowledge

triggered much?

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

What, like America-hating Americans aren't a thing? You really haven't heard of this yet? Read on: http://archive.is/QRJ6m

triggered much?

Not triggered. Did it feel good to write that? Then you've proven my point.

Triggering is a set of PTSD-like symptoms that arise when Leftists encounter contrary opinions. They can literally train themselves to break out into fits of anxiety and stress when they read things they don't agree with. They are then triggered, and retreat to a safe space. The person who triggered them is now guilty of a hate crime, and the SJW mob is set in motion.

I get the idea you don't know what triggering means.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I'm not an American so weird flex, but okay.

Did it feel good to write that?

Write what? I just posted a reasearch on something that could apply to the wole world, just so happended the research was done under Americans... The article itself (from a GB company) asks questions about the questions asked.

So you can frame the article I posted as 'bashing of Americans' and I can't frame you as 'triggered' ?

You were triggered by the title somehow thinking it's a demeaning one towards Americans while it's one of warning; normal people don't know a thing about internet safety. Then you went on asking me how I feel about that (bashing Americans).

You employ the same tactics as this SJW-mob you refer to, making shit up and not reading the article trying to frame me with some sort of guilt trip for posting this ("Feel good?") There are even points awarded to the group participants in the article, how come it's bashing anyway?

The biggest problem raised in the article is:

Unfortunately, the padlock symbol that your browser displays when you’re using HTTPS can fool users into thinking it does. Many assume (not least because security professionals spent years telling them to) that the padlock means the website they’re looking at must be the real thing, rather than a fake.

The FBI recently warned that phishing sites are preying on this misunderstanding and using TLS to appear more legitimate to victims.

But you already knew that, because you read the article instead of (to my misunderstanding) being triggered ;)

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

You were triggered by the title

I don't suffer PTSD-like symptoms. That's what "triggered" means. In the words of a great man, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't suffer PTSD-like symptoms.

Sure, American.

EDIT: aka A casual way of saying: yeah I didn't read shit and was 'upset' by the title, in your strictly defined (snowflake like) way of framing the word 'triggered'.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's literally what triggered means. Specific words or phrases trigger memories of a traumatic event, which freaks out the triggered person. Thus trigger warnings, etc. It doesn't mean what you're using it to mean, and by the way redefining words was the tactic of the villain of Orwell's 1984.

"There's glory for you!"

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you'!" "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more or less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be Master - that's all."

-- Alice in Wonderland

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Cool for going off topic and all, you know, how is this article 'bashing Americans'?

There is no reason to think so, if you've read it. Yet you freaked out by just the title, going on a assumption spree with an attempt into guilt tricking. Flash-back:

Why the gratuitous bashing of Americans? Feel good?

How is this not a 'freaking out' response? You claiming you don't have PTSD isn't the way PTSD diagnosis works either.

bracing myself for another off-topic response indicative of a junkie confronted with their addiction and self-destructive behavior; claiming the 'others' are the ones who have a problem

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's not a freaking out response. It's a tired response to a hateful headline. People love to bash Americans for not being perfect. It makes them feel good and diverts attention away from their own inadequacies.

The triggered response would be to collapse into emotional breakdown and turn off the computer. I can see you have no idea what you're talking about.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Q.E.D. you were and still are triggered. 'Hateful headline': now that's some SJW shit tactic :p

Hateful headline!? HOW? Normal people don't know what https:// means, that's the problem, not a problem in as "hur hur they are dumb dumbs", a problem as in "this is easily exploited by cyber criminals".

But no: "the headline is hateful, I'm not triggered, I have no PTSD, I don't turn off my computer, see I just proved I'm not triggered and you don't know what you're talking about" going on for 4 comments now, I bet you still haven't read the damn article.

This whole victim perspective you have your tantrum about is a clear sign of being triggered, nobody can check whether you have or not have PTSD (something you claim one must have to be triggered) nor that you did or did not turn off your computer (yet another thing being triggered consists off). But MAN, this is the most clear case of being triggered, it gets clearer with every response.

I can see you have no idea what you're talking about.

Why this hatefulness against my lowIQbrianz? Feel good?

jk

This is hilarious.