> On 17-Jan-2017, at 10:49, Evgeny Khramtsov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:29:09 -0600
> Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Of note: security didn't really enter into it from her perspective
>
> Exactly. Regular users aren't concerned about security and encryption.
> They don't even know if Whatsapp has any sort of encryption. Yet, every
> third discussion on this list is about encryption. Look at the tail
> of the XEPs list: there are 6 encryption related XEPs out of 18 (i.e.
> 30%) WTF? Whom are we building network for?
Whether they know about it or not, people do need to have encryption.
It’s a complicated, esoteric thing that they shouldn’t have to know about but
do silently benefit from. In the dreaded car analogy: how many users discuss
limited slip differentials? Does that mean there shouldn’t be engineering
resources behind it?
It’s a similar thing, in my mind, with federation. IMHO, it’s dangerous
to put so much information in the control of a few huge organizations, and
federation is a necessary, but not sufficient, way to alleviate that. It’s more
than just whether or not users knowingly care, it’s engineering ways to help
keep them safe and in control of what they share and with whom.
-bjc
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