Well, specifically in IT, this word has special meanings. And it seems that specifically those of us in the IT world who follow the security topics might get caught in a way they don’t expect:

When an application asks you to pass on the username and password for operating on it’s own on your website, most of us would be very cautious. So was I when WordPress asked me to perform the upgradde to the latest version automatically. I created an ftp-user and allowed it to access only the directory (and sub-directories) where WordPress is installed. The upgrade did not work. Thought it was a configuration error in the wp-config.php file but it wasn’t.

Turns out that WordPress expects to be trusted and then performs its action only in it’s own installation directory. So once I gave the ftp-user full path access, all worked well with the upgrade.

In summary, while we should be aware of and know about security, sometimes we should allow ourselves to trust an application