On 21-aug-2007, at 3:10, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Anyone who thinks that a new mail protocol that relies on users seeing
some "secure" or "trustworthy" indicator should read:
That's completely meaningless.
When you let small kids or dogs loose on the street, they will walk
under cars because they don't understand what the cars are doing and
that they won't be able to stop in time. The dogs will never
understand these things, but generally, the kids grow up and learn to
deal with traffic.
Today's internet users are 4-year old kids. The banks are parents
that spoil their kids by bailing them out rather than making them
feel the consequences of bad behavior. The banks actually like this,
because this "service" enables them to keep pocketing a nice
percentage of all credit card transactions.
At all levels, users, banks, certificate vendors and governments,
things that could actually help the situation aren't done. So
apparently there is no problem.
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