Re: We can smirk...
I wish I could upvote this more than once. We, in IT, have become rather cynical and guarded about this sort of stuff. It doesn't matter if it's smartphones or PC's, we've seen it all or just about have. The average user.. no they haven't. I still hear from people who got a virus from a spoofed email and don't understand why their friend would send them a virus. Or why, they got caught by a nasty from a drive-by or malvertising
Even people who should know better get nailed by phishing emails.. as the number of companies paying fake invoices is showing.
They do have an expectation that the internet is secure. That governments aren't spying on them. That stuff they put onto the cloud or in their devices is not seen or accessed by anyone else.
If the government agencie charged with "policing and protection", if the AV programs all did what they say they do, we might not have these isues. Sadly we can't change the way people think and work. There's always those who look for the easy money... be they malware thugs or even advertisers.
The world lacks trust and ethics and that's something that will damn hard to change.