Totally supporting this. As always in that kind of thread I feel it should be mentioned though, that easier to use is never, never, never ever more secure. Yes,

Totally supporting this. As always in that kind of thread I feel it should be mentioned though, that easier to use is never, never, never ever more secure. Yes, less clutch means more secure. But if you ever think you can just start any computer and do something secure, without checking, configuring and understanding your environment, then you live in a dream world. Higher security means having more control of the environment, and that might very well mean understanding some physical and mathematical boundaries. "just starting to do X securely" (with X possibly being communicating with someone else) is impossible. In fact security gets harder every year, not easier, because our computers get more complex and harder to understand. If you have a smartphone it's really hard to even understand the hardware you have, because 90% of that computer is in a single chip. You can't look inside just like that anymore. And besides all these technical issues there is also always the human factor. The most secure tool is only as secure as you interact with people. You can't improve that with a better GUI or something either.