Torproject disease infects WhatsApp - User experience trumps(sic) security

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Sun Jan 15 21:31:59 PST 2017


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On 01/15/2017 03:39 PM, Spencer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 
>> Razer: Torproject disease infects WhatsApp - User experience
>> trumps(sic) security
>> 
> 
> Security is a usability issue.
> 
>> "failure to obtain permission"
> 
> "Better to ask forgiveness ..."
> 
> An increasing usability "feature" trend.
> 
> Wordlife, Spencer

A work in progress:

A Millenials' Digital Bill Of Rights

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all First World Middle
Class tweens, teens and 20-somethings are created superior, and are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable digital rights
including:

To have their personal needs anticipated and met without effort on
their part.

To do exactly as they please at all times with no chance of
destructive consequences.

To maintain high bandwidth 24/7 ominplexed network participation with
full privacy and security.

To by protected from abuse of State and Corporate power by State and
Corporate actors.

Our up and coming Consumers did not choose these self- and mutually
contradictory demands themselves; they have been indoctrinated by a
seamless lifelong sales campaign, a uniform front of instant
gratification product offerings and attractively packaged Experiences.
 No "conspiracy" was required to implement this program; it arose
naturally from commercial competition.  But this spontaneously
self-organized Standard has been recognized, formalized, and is now
consciously pursued by every significant vendor in the consumer
electronics, software and network services sphere.  The market has
spoken and the UX future is now.

A monitored life for every consumer, in the cybernetic sense of the
word monitored, has now become a conscious and calculated goal:  An
egocasting bubble for every consumer, unbreakable walls of contempt
and alienation between every pseudo-tribe, a navigation funnel for
every human need, and a grand illusion of personal autonomy for every
captive consumer.  All consumers shall be sold both aspirations and
the fulfillment of those aspirations in an eternally self adjusting
feedback cycle of surveillance and adaptive stimulation.

Users?  Please.  General purpose programmable computers in private
hands create problems, not Solutions.  Laughable wannabe-elitist
Lusers are already being phased out of society, and good riddance.  We
will of course need a /few/ thoroughly vetted and deeply dependent
grunt workers to design and program devices to meet sales and
marketing objectives.  There will also be deviant technophiliac rats
in the walls of the global village, but exterminators make money you kno
w.


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