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by danielconde 3773 days ago
Encryption and security has always been a balance between convenience and capability. Although HTPPS and such are mostly transparent to end-user, we can see that slow adoption of public key encryption (GPG) indicates that people either need to be educated or the user experience needs to improve drastically. It's taken many years but there's a long road ahead.
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> Encryption and security has always been a balance between convenience and capability.

You could say the same thing about PCs and the internet, especially during their rise to prominence.