Safer Internet: Introduction: Audience

Who? | Advice Levels


Who

  • You -- "ordinary" users with willingness to:
  • Explore settings on your computers/devices and read articles
    -- or if you're not DIY, at least understand the risks/issues, while enlisting your 'techie' friend/relative
  • Take action: make some immediate changes, and create a plan for later actions
  • Avoid procrastination, panic, guilt or information overload
  • Ask questions, especially about jargon (or see PC Glossary definitions of Computer and Internet Terms)

Advice Levels / Tags

  • [#] prefix on advice/references suggests* experience, importance and/or effort:
  • [1] Beginners: some familiarity with system/browser settings; high impact; mostly easy
  • [2] Intermediate: more experienced; moderate, some complexity, less common
  • [3] Advanced: savvy users, developers, administrators; more complex; special situations; research or future-oriented
  • -- or Extreme: dissidents, journalists, whistleblowers, celebrities, lawmakers, lawbreakers, corporations, crytocurrency speculators, paranoids
  • *categories are not rigid -- arguably, some items could shift +/-1
  • This Chart Shows How Computer Literate Most People Are
    Distribution of Computer Skills (none, terrible, poor, medium, strong) Among People Aged 16-65, by country; 12/7/2016