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A lot of the devices mentioned ("routers, printers, and self-hosted IoT devices") don't give ways to change the certificate. Besides, not every individual or co
by petronio 6y ago
A lot of the devices mentioned ("routers, printers, and self-hosted IoT devices") don't give ways to change the certificate. Besides, not every individual or company wants to or is knowledgeable enough to manage their own CA. For the audience in HN it might be an hour one evening, to others the instructions read like black magic.
- sukilot 6y agoRouting is scary magic. DNS is scary magic. Wifi is scary magic. Everything in computing is scary magic until someone writes an app with good UX for it. It's not a fundamental problem.
- petronio 6y agoIt is a fundamental problem, because you need specialized knowledge to understand what is being presented and asked of you in the UI. The average user knows absolutely nothing about routing, most will throw their hands up or their eyes will swim if you so much as mention something like IP address. They also know nothing about DNS and don't have to: because we always give them defaults that they never see and they go along with their lives. As for wifi, once again, largely automated. Most people never change the default SSID and password. There's some manufacturers that will make a good UI, but it stops at the SSID and passwords because that's the extent of most users' understanding. Some users have a vague understanding that 2.4GHz and 5GHz is different, but don't know the significance of the difference. Channel, authentication type, and other options aren't given to users in those UIs because they simply wouldn't know what to do with it and people don't read manuals anyways.