[ On Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 11:17:26 (-0500), David Brodbeck wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [exim] Securing Email for the prying eyes of any government
>
> People used to leave their doors unlocked and park their cars with the keys
> in the ignition, too. Times change.
Indeed, and sole reason was more or less equivalent to "ease of use".
However as Schneier makes clear in his "Secrets & Lies" book, these
kinds of analogies are not even remotely similar to what happens in the
digital networked realm and why security is many orders of magnitude
more important even when nothing that's being done digitally needs to be
kept from the prying eyes of anyone else, let alone any government.
A more apporpriate analogy might be possible if there were now
_billions_ of unseen little gremlins _everywhere_ that would _instantly_
steal your car and/or vandalize it _every_ time if you didn't
_immediately_ lock the door as you got out and closed it. Luckily most
of the real world, at the macro level, doesn't work that way. However
the digital world can work that way, all the time, like it or not.
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