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Re: [Cryptography] Explaining PK to grandma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Nov 28 13:53:53 2013
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:51:21 +1300
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: jon@callas.org, nico@cryptonector.com
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Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> writes:
>Teaching people the risks inherent in driving machines like cars has only
>happened because of legislation, active and passive regulation (insurance
>demands are passive regulation), and three generations of time.
You forgot to mention one of the most important factors, "Hollywood and TV".
Everyone's seen who-knows-how-many car chases, explosions, and car wrecks, in
movies, and gory car accidents, on the TV new or on America's Funniest
Automotive Decapitations or whatever. Telling them "if you do/don't do X,
you'll end up like Y" is pretty easy. OTOH for email security the best you
can do is say "if you do/don't do X", where X is invariably some geeky silly-
walk, "then some vague and undefined bad thing may or may not happen".
Peter.
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