"And that’s why Microsoft software is so insecure, and why everything that prevails in the marketplace starts off by being insecure. People race to get that mar

"And that’s why Microsoft software is so insecure, and why everything that prevails in the marketplace starts off by being insecure. People race to get that market position, and in the process they made it really easy for people to write software for their platform. They didn’t let boring things like access controls or proper cryptography get in the way." If no one is using the internet or computers, then there's no point being sophisticated about its security and privacy. This unfortunately makes certain technologies like e-mail impossible to make truly private...and it's hard to get a few billion people to change their email protocol now, though not impossible. For example, https protocol was added and widely adopted for the internet.