On 11/15/11 13:19 , Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Joel jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> plugging things into things seems like a rather short-sightt
>> requirement for a relationship.
> 
> I will resist the obvious rejoinder.  And no, it is not
> short-sighted.   Assuming that physical user interfaces are likely to
> become obsolete in favor of something else is simply not consistent
> with reality. 

A decade and a half worth of bluetooth security associations including
really bad ones says otherwise.

Personal devices by in large are shedding data-ports where possible and
especially for low speed interaction.

> Physical UIs are easy to understand.   Making someone
> go to a configuration page on your router is hard to understand. 

And I see that as a usable outcome, as rather unlikely.

>  I
> think in fact that one of the reasons we fail in security on the
> Internet is precisely that we fail to understand how people interact
> with UIs, and design protocols that require UIs with which most
> people cannot successfully interact.

As a consumer I want to bring the thing home, turn it on, and have it work.


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