Discuss “Study shows students cause computer issues”

According to a recent survey published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, you are your computer?s worst enemy.

The survey reported that out of 319 studied incidents, recklessness and apathy caused roughly 40 percent of computer security problems. This means that many network security problems such as viruses, data loss, and remote hacker control of a personal computer arise from a common source that causes more problems than malicious hacking: student negligence. Students push aside their responsibilities to follow network policies, and this creates far too many problems that network security administrators want to prevent.

Joel Smith, the vice-provost and chief information officer for Computing Services at CMU, said that most responsibility...