I mean at some point party officials wanted or were willing to try an app.
Rather than tightly describing each aspect of its behavior and carefully
testing each one, they trusted someone else. As if you could insulate
oneself from liability so easily. I must really getting to be a cranky old
man, but back when I was a kid I used assembly language! Hardware devices did
specific things and nothing else. Now kids just spew dorkage at Python and
hope for the best. Gah.
On 2/6/20, 12:35 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-boun...@redfish.com on
behalf of geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
I almost agree. But there are limits to one's understanding of any given
thing. E.g. I probably understand more about the Banking App an employee of my
new credit union told me to install on my Android than that employee
understands. ... I rejected their suggestion and told them that I'm confused
why so many people keep banking info on notoriously insecure things like smart
phones. But I have to admit that there's a limit to the extent to which I
understand Android phones ... and I'm almost completely ignorant of their
Banking App. How secure is secure enough for me to *delegate* that
trustability? If they tell me some yahoo at "VeriSign" or wherever evaluated
it? If I use both a PIN and a pattern to unlock my phone? Etc.
You have to take leaps of faith at some point. When/where to do it is the
question.
On 2/6/20 9:21 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> It is necessary to be involved in how a thing works and have some skin in
the game. Management doesn't work. Delegation doesn't work. Technology
that people use but don't understand just makes people stupid.
--
☣ uǝlƃ
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