-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Faustine wrote: Tim wrote:
> Getting away fron digital cash for a moment, If you'd care to point me > to any examples of crypto companies really focused and committed to developing > applications that are commercially appealing to Joe Sixpack AOLuser, > I'd be interested to hear about them. >>SSL/RSA built into every financial transaction with the common browsers. >>Visit Amazon, Ebay, etc., and note the secure connections. >>User-transpaperent, of course, but then, of course, this is precisely >>what a "Joe Sixpack AOLuser" [SIC] application _must_ be. You know as well as I do that the real push for improving transaction security is coming from commercial interests, not demand by the average user. > Is it really such a stretch to say that most > people in the crypto community don't really give a damn about Joe wants > or needs? How many times have you heard people here implicitly echo the > sentiment: "If they're too lazy or stupid to get it, then screw em." >>Well, you are the one using the expression "Joe Sixpack AOLuser." >>As for me, I'm a neo-Calvinist Nietzscheian. It is of little concern to >>me whether crypto is dumbed-down to the point where Mr. Rogers uses it. I'm a neo-Schopenhauerian Cynic-Stoic eudaimonist. Which is entirely beside the point that if you or I were trying to _make money_ selling crypto directly to average home users, we certainly ought to put some real effort into hiring people who know what average home users really want and are comfortable with. Even with a whole laundry list of reasons behind the recent troubles (i.e. failures) of ZKS and Network Associates, I don't think you ought to dismiss the "intelligence divide" problem out of hand. Maybe you can, but I think it's still worth considering. >>As usual, you just bullshit about things you obviously know little >>about. Do some serious reading, get up to speed. As usual, you round things off with an rallying cry of "whippersnapper!!!" No problem, I know the drill. ~Faustine. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBO/gt9fg5Tuca7bfvEQJbOwCgyD72i0wrnrWNf6Z0BXMA40n6lQsAoLQs etKdxKENbexO7K4tWbO+ZifJ =XSKy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
