Comment by gear54rus
19 days ago
> How many times have we seen people install spyware because of claims that it will remove spyware?
That is the kind of example that completely disproves your point. How many times do we have to fall into 'just lock everything down for safety' pit and end up with being forced to look at even more ads as a result before we learn?
The only way to be safe is to be informed, 'just works' doesn't exist. Don't trust anyone but yourself.
> The only way to be safe is to be informed
Unfortunately getting everyone into an informed state is a massive and so far unattainable task, and those not well-informed are not just a potential danger to themselves but to the rest of the network, so we need fail-safe protections in place and to not encourage people to disable them for the sake of convenience.
> Don't trust anyone but yourself.
But do encourage people to trust a CA they have no knowledge how to verify? That CA could also sign things that happen in the background so trusting is potentially trusting a huge portion of the Internet with no further stopping points for the user to verify trust. Your point seems to be internally contradictory.