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Incomplete fixes only prolong the agony.

• tptacek 9y ago
  And where by "agony" we mean "innocent people being put at risk". For what? So we can feel clever for someone having pulled off an elaborate retrofit we didn't expect we could accomplish? That's vanity, not engineering.
  • azernik 9y ago
    So we can feel clever for having actually gotten adoption, rather than feeling clever for creating a wonderfully-secure new system that can't compete with the network effect of e-mail.
    • tptacek 9y ago
      It's possible that more bona-fide messages are sent every day with WhatsApp than with email, whose stats include (and, at least for me, are dominated by) automated transactional emails. I don't think "network effect" is as powerful an argument as you want it to be.