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RE: Okay, I'm just going to _assume_...

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Mon Oct 25 03:14:28 2004

> > :...that there's some operational content somewhere in here:
> > :
> > :http://www.cisco.com/edu/peterpacket/

Another fine candidate for the Prelinger Archives.

Cisco has Peter Packet, the Bell System had Tommy Telephone.
http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=prelinger&cat=Communication:%20Telephone

Or for the all purpose industrial film, Your Name Here
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=01681&from=pickList


Do any of these "training" materials have any impact?

Apparently not.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6592916&section=news

  Most users also had little awareness of "adware" programs that deliver
  pop-up ads based on the Web sites visited. Most infected with adware did
  not know they had such programs on their computers and did not know how
  to get rid of them.

  "I was surprised at the difference between perception and reality in
  some cases," said Ken Watson, a Cisco Systems Inc. executive who chairs
  the National Cyber Security Alliance, a partnership between high-tech
  businesses and the U.S. government.