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If everyone is fine with the status quo why would they adopt technologies that challenge the status quo? In general security systems will cause some amount of
by betterunix 13y ago
If everyone is fine with the status quo why would they adopt technologies that challenge the status quo? In general security systems will cause some amount of inconvenience and the perceived benefit must outweigh the cost of that inconvenience.
- throwit1979 13y agoExcept they're not. The profusion of even naive encryption amongst the general population is effectively zero, assuming you exclude transparently-used encryption like SSL. When 50% of the membership of AARP is using GPG and having key signing parties, then we can talk.
- nhaehnle 13y agoActually, 10% might be enough, if you believe some of the research on how society-wide changes happen. That doesn't really change the overall conclusion at the moment, but it's nice to stay optimistic...