Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging
an armored car to deliver credit-card information from someone
living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
The thing I really hate about these metaphors is that they lead one to the
conclusion that it's pointless to use strong crypto, when really the conclusion
one should draw is that one should try to avoid living in cardboard boxes,
where possible.
Spafford's is also a 25-year-old metaphor, which is why someone updated
it to "using strong crypto...." Old metaphors, like urban legends, adapt
to the times.
In the same vein: people complaining that I "locked the front door and
left the window open." This is one I confess to using quite a bit. But
it does not mean I should unlock the front door.
<csg>
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