When it comes to the Internet, it just pays to be a little
paranoid (but not a lot). Given the level of anonymity with all
that resides on the Internet, it’s sensible to question the validity
of any data that you may receive. Typically it’s to our natural
instinct when we meet someone coming down a sidewalk to
place yourself in some manner of protective position,
especially when they introduce themselves as having known
you, much to your surprise. By design, we set up challenges in
which the individual must validate how they know us by
presenting scenarios, names or acquaintances, or evidence by
which to validate (that is, photographs). Once we have
received that information and it has gone through a cognitive
validation, we accept that person as more trustworthy. All this
happens in a matter of minutes but is a natural defense
mechanism that we perform in the real world. However, in the
virtual world, we have a tendency to be less defensive, as there
appears to be no physical threat to our well-being.
계속 validate, validity 라는 말이 나온다.
결국 '인터넷(가상세계)에서는 확인하는(validate) 작업이 필수이다.'
라는 것을 강조하고 있다.
현실세계에서는 우리는 방어적이다 라는 말도 예도.
마치 현실 세계에서 우리가 그렇게 하는 것처럼
가상세계에서도 그래야 한다.
그러므로 이 글의 요지는
⑤ 방어 기제가 덜 작동하는 가상 세계에서는 신중한 정보 검증이 중요하다
