How to Save the Environment, or; Why Nobody Takes your Security Advice

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Presented at InfoSecSouthWest 2014 by

Daniel Crowley

Some security advice is bad, not because it doesn't fix the problem it's aimed at fixing, but because following the advice isn't actually reasonable. This talk will demonstrate through various pieces of advice on how to reduce your environmental impact how perfectly effective solutions to security problems can be mostly to completely useless in the real world. For instance, one way to reduce your impact on the ozone layer and on petroleum consumption is to walk to work instead of drive. This will save you money and help the environment, but if you live 20 miles from where you work, this is not a practical solution. This talk aims to help technical-minded people understand that there's more to fixing a security problem than just addressing the technical issues and to improve the adoption of good security practices by providing more practical guidance to non-technical folk.