Off Topic: Why Everyday Encryption will NEVER happen
Not strictly OIM related, but couldn't resist commenting. Sorry.
It's so sad. The folks at Kryptiva have done an absolutely stellar job, but the target audience is simply far to impatient and attention defecated (corporate version of ADD) to ever change behavior to this extent. Yes, Kryptiva has made the process as simple as possible, but no simpler; but it's not a technology problem. It's a human problem and humans will always be the problem.
Kryptiva - Democratizing Email Encryption - User Experience Demo
Sorry to say, but the closest you'll ever get to such laudable goals is to transparently secure the links between clients and switches, switches and servers, servers and routers, routers and clouds. At least by securing all the pipes -- a feat that leaves end users completely out of the loop -- administrators can ensure traffic integrity every but at the endpoints.
At some point, users do have to take on accountability for their own behavior, and for better or worse, as of Q4 2007, that point is still at the Windows login screen. <sigh>.
It's so sad. The folks at Kryptiva have done an absolutely stellar job, but the target audience is simply far to impatient and attention defecated (corporate version of ADD) to ever change behavior to this extent. Yes, Kryptiva has made the process as simple as possible, but no simpler; but it's not a technology problem. It's a human problem and humans will always be the problem.
Kryptiva - Democratizing Email Encryption - User Experience Demo
Sorry to say, but the closest you'll ever get to such laudable goals is to transparently secure the links between clients and switches, switches and servers, servers and routers, routers and clouds. At least by securing all the pipes -- a feat that leaves end users completely out of the loop -- administrators can ensure traffic integrity every but at the endpoints.
At some point, users do have to take on accountability for their own behavior, and for better or worse, as of Q4 2007, that point is still at the Windows login screen. <sigh>.
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