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If I was advocating teaching people to read 800 years ago, you could have said the same thing about literacy. People learn when it's sufficiently important tha
by leot 13y ago
If I was advocating teaching people to read 800 years ago, you could have said the same thing about literacy.
People learn when it's sufficiently important that they do so.
- danabramov 13y agoCan you sell literacy to someone? I think it's fairly simple: if you're literate, you can make way more money for your family. How do you sell understanding cryptography, using it in real life and whatnot?
- a3n 13y agoRight now there's relatively little risk in credit and identity theft, because people are usually mostly made whole after an event. As more criminals pour through the holes opened by the NSA and their ilk, it will become difficult and then impossible for most of those victims to be made whole. At that point you can easily sell security, privacy and good government. That is, if it isn't taken violently at the point of a pitchfork. [Hey, NSA, have you reinforced your buildings?]