The Biggest Understatement of Risk

Erlend Andreas Gjære
1 min readNov 20, 2016

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And the winner is … Microsoft Office, offering users worldwide the biggest understatement of risky actions in software — “Enable Content”:

Instead, the button should be labelled something a bit more honest, like:

“No, just trust the document author with full control over my PC!”

Well, perhaps it could be tweaked slightly. But you get the point, Microsoft.

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Erlend Andreas Gjære

SECURITY & PEOPLE specialist, speaker, co-founder of Secure Practice. Awareness, culture, training, behavior, change, risk, tech, empathy. securityandpeople.com