some security products seem like they are designed to discredit security as a field. imo the market is just at the point of backlash against the decadent stupid

some security products seem like they are designed to discredit security as a field. imo the market is just at the point of backlash against the decadent stupidity in that cost centre. if you are going to humiliate people by making them jump through hoops 10x a day with context switching 2FA tokens and make serious people with educations and responsibilities use words like "smishing," you better be sure that hoop is the finest example of engineering anywhere. the solution has become the problem. I'm calling the peak.