* Stephen Kent wrote: >I understand the goal of making life harder for state surveillance. >However, I am not willing (personally) to incur any degraded user >experience, >premature cell phone battery depletion, etc in order to support this goal. >I suspect, but cannot prove, that most users would express similar feelings.
We generally regard representative opinion polls conducted by reputable polling organisations as adequate proof for statements like that and it is reasonably inexpensive to commission them, so I think you can. The problem is of course how to structure the interview, how to phrase the questions, what kind of answers to offer, what information to provide upfront, and so on. I imagine, for instance, many people also do not want to incur degraded user experience due to state surveillance, like being unable to work jobs that require a security clearance or being put on a "no fly list" because some automated system detected too many ungood words in messages they sent or received; or losing their job because their employer went out of business after losing the corporate espionage game with a foreign power. I suspect, if you asked people whether they are willing to give up, say, 10% battery life, or pay 10% more for their batteries, and be protected against such threats, most would take the deal. In contrast, if you tell the story from the other side, get 10% more battery and better chances to stay in business because some NSA guys owe the CEO a favour, well, I suspect that also sounds appealing to many. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
