The insight I got out of the article was that 
the two big problems of security are still
user education and cognitive overload.

As anyone who's tried to wean people off of
a certain popular emal client with a propensity for 
executing any binary attachments to messages can attest
these are not  easy problems.

The cognitive overload problem strikes me as the more interesting 
of the two since solving it even partially would be an lucrative proposition.

Part of the problem is that security is a cost and an encumbrance and
we've developed an ecosystem of people and organisations who have a
vested interest
in seeing that the status quo is maintained.

I thought the most interesting bit was the one about standards, and
the fact that the IETF process ground to a halt once there was money
to be made...




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