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There are bugs in the standards and bugs in the implementations. Enabling them exposes a great deal more attack surface to the internet at large. Worst case sce
by djent 12y ago
There are bugs in the standards and bugs in the implementations. Enabling them exposes a great deal more attack surface to the internet at large. Worst case scenario: net security negative.
I don't understand what would make someone think that possibly-compromised security is worse than no security.
- mnw21cam 12y agoPossibly-compromised security has the potential in this case to mean your computer gets taken over and starts performing DDoS attacks at the behest of organised crime groups. No security means that some of your email may be read.
- DanBC 12y ago> I don't understand what would make someone think that possibly-compromised security is worse than no security. False sense of security - you think your communications are secure but they're not.
- njharman 12y agoThat is a false sense of / misunderstanding of what security is. Security is not yes/no, I am secure or not. It is a gradient. Gradient of risk vs cost. You are never 100% secure. And probably don't want to be even that close to 100% (cost being too great).
- danielweber 12y agoIf you simply read his essay, there are actual real world instances of being worse off because of using encryption. This isn't some super-theoretical navel-gazing going on: it actually happened, multiple times.