Re: Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] Encryption opinion

There are probably some earlier technological transitions which can serve
as precedent. The only one that immediately comes to mind for me is the
massiveness of high quality audio amplifiers. At time t0 quality amps were
heavy, and all light amps were low quality. At time t1, there was no longer
any technical need for quality amps to be heavy. But consumers already had
that expectation from t0, so amp makers included, effectively, bricks in
the boxes, so that the quality amps would have the mass users associated
with quality.

Somehow we made the transition to time t2, where amp makers omitted the
bricks, and consumers no longer took the lightness to be an indicator of
lack of quality. I don't know what steps, if any, the amp makers took to
facilitate that transition.

The above is merely from my impressions without support. Does this seem
right? Anyone know what the approx dates were for t0, t1, t2? Any pointers
to evidence for or against this vague memory of the history?

Any other examples of similar historic transitions? Or informative contrary
transitions?




On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rob Meijer wrote:
> >
> > The big problem is: how do you create a fearless usability path for
> people
> > poisoned with a combination of the Pavlovian password-popup solutions and
> > a 'security awareness' mindset?
> >
> We ran into this problem with SCoopFS when one of our users asked us how
> to turn on security.  All we could think of was to change the splash screen
> to say "Enabling Secure Interactions."  I don't know how much that helped.
> Maybe we should have just popped up some security dialog boxes at random
> times.  They wouldn't have to do anything, just annoy the user into feeling
> secure.  They might also serve to distract attackers.
>
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    --MarkM

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