How much should it cost to hack a $100 computer?
   No really, poll it. Make opinion polls, get people to print them out
   and mail their congressmen. Have the statistical distribution per
   decile listed.
   Fortunately, we had the NSA make the hard decision on how secure
   computers should be. The average person is not capable of making a
   tradeoff between freedom and security. This is an unfortunate limit to
   democracy, people will only demand what is in their own interests, not
   preventing the creation of victims.
   Perhaps terrorism could be limited in impact by limiting coverage of it
   altogether, but journalists can't help themselves or listen to anyone.
   If there was proof otherwise, it'd make people question everything.
   The cost of securing a computer is only available to the biggest
   companies with economies of scale, small businesses are out of luck. An
   estimate of losses to economic espionage is $100 billion a year. Thus
   the value of American economic insecurity must be greater than that of
   secure computing for everyone.