Stumbled upon a discussion here from a couple of days ago titled "Do young adults overestimate their cybersecurity awareness?" and it got me thinking: why do we keep having these conversations about how different generations are vulnerable to cyber threats in different ways?
I think people don't build their cybersecurity immunity anymore.
Back in the day, when 90% of internet traffic wasn't controlled by four companies, you slowly built your security awareness the hard way: by being exposed to countless small threats.
You'd get a whole pack of unwanted programs installed on your PC after accidentally clicking an ad banner. Worms and Trojans were widespread at every printing kiosk. One time, my classmate erased my homework from my thumb drive by inserting it into a PC I'd told him not to use because everyone knew it was full of encryption viruses. Both of us learned something that day.
Now, almost everywhere you go is sterile. Even websites with pirated movies look like Netflix.
You're not exposed to small threats that were teaching you a lesson. And because of that, you don't build your immunity step by step. So when a real threat comes (nowadays they are much more serious since your entire life is online now), you don't recognize it anymore because you haven't seen anything like it before. And the damage done by the security breach is higher.
Anyway, would be cool to see any research articles on the topic (all that I've seen before contradict each other lol)
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