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Or they could just not do it because it's not that important to most people... HN comment sections are not representative of the general populace.
by ajkjk 5y ago
Or they could just not do it because it's not that important to most people... HN comment sections are not representative of the general populace.
- neilalexander 5y agoDo you know this with reasonable certainty or are you assuming this to be the case? Either way, it’s arguably better to design defensively and build in better security than you think you will need up front rather than have worse security and be in the headlines for the wrong reasons later.
- ajkjk 5y agoI'm assuming it, and I'm certain my assumption is right. 99% of people have no idea what encryption is, so there's no way they could care about it. So while I'm not "utterly certain", all anyone would have to do to be as certain as me is go ask, like, five people who aren't engineers about it.
- spacebear 5y agoI don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy. I think most people do care about privacy, but they're usually powerless to defend it.
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoYeah I think you are right, more and more people are becoming very sensitive to this, and I am, too, personally. But as I wrote in a parent comment, I'd rather get it right later than wrong now. It's a big thing to misrepresent.
- ajkjk 5y agoThe average Facebook user.. does... trust Facebook, enough to use it. That's why Facebook is a multi-billion-dollar company. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if people on this site have ever interacted with people outside of tech.