Re: Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] Encryption opinion

Raoul Duke wrote:
> 
> so it is an uphill battle. maybe it is best that it first gets good
> footholds in the code behind the scenes, and then can maybe some day
> moves into the user facing ui. i mean, other than in cool / research
> projects.
>
A strategy I've been using is to find a simple yet important case that the current model can't handle, service chaining.  That gives me an opening to explain the solution.  I've gotten adoption for three projects, one canceled, one in production, and one TBD.

I disagree about moving to the UI, except in the sense of improving it.  Any UI that exposes the underlying security mechanisms has failed.  Even SCoopFs, which used a familiar email metaphor for sharing files, had a problem.  It didn't pester users with security questions, so at least one of them thought security was turned off.

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> Subject: Re: [cap-talk] Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] Encryption opinion
> 
> i mean, even with the good Cap apps that have shipped, i might hope
> that they really did do a good job, but we just don't know until
> enough random users have used them.
> 
> > So there have been millions of
> > person-years of work applied towards making them as user-friendly as
> > possible, and training users to accept the remaining shortcomings as just
> > being "how things work".
> 
> personally i strongly believe it is mostly the latter rather than the
> former. anybody who takes a step back from computer technology and
> doesn't see it as one mostly giant car wreck is not to be trusted.
> 
> no matter how much even good people try to fix it, they are just using
> a spoon on a mountain of poo.
> 
> > But also, we can't just say, "Our model is much cleaner so it has *got* to
> > be better than that awful mess over there." No matter how much we (me
> > included!) may believe it.
> 
> there's no such thing as "intuitiveness" [1]. there's familiarity,
> there's habit, there's brainwashing, there's dominant paradigms.
> 
> so it is an uphill battle. maybe it is best that it first gets good
> footholds in the code behind the scenes, and then can maybe some day
> moves into the user facing ui. i mean, other than in cool / research
> projects.
> 
> [1] was it Alan Cooper? was it Jef Raskin at his house while showing
> off his Humane Interface? can't recall. probably many good usability
> people have made the observation :-)
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