On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:39:49AM -0400, Tony Rutkowski wrote:
>
> That is assuming the "average person" or the providers
> of services to such persons, cares enough to do anything.
> If the past ten years have demonstrated anything, the
> average person and provider do not care. Indeed,
> conversely, they will be concerned about cost,
> performance, ease of use, and attractive feature sets.
As they say, past results is not necessarily indicative of future
performance.
There seem to be at least some evidence that "normal users" have
started to care more about their security --- or you could say that
there have been a greater number of people joining the ranks of the
"super-paranoid". And Yahoo has announced they will start turning on
encryption by default starting early next year; some have speculated
that Yahoo may have been felt impact of the reporting that showed that
the NSA had collected twice as many address books from Yahoo Users as
from all of the other major services combined.
One interesting indicator of how much "the average person" will care
is how much pressure politicians feel from their constiuents when some
of the intelligence gathering reform bills start getting debated
before congress --- especially the bill from Senators Wyden and Udall.
> Perpass falls
> into the noise, except for generating new ideas
> for the above actors.
People who feel this way certainly have no obligation to participate
in perpass. :-)
- Ted
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