[bmer]

Yeah, I really don't think you should (and neither should I), since we're never as smart as we think we are.

The author did not mean tortious, but instead tortuous. But one immediately gathers this from the context anyway. Who cares what the spelling is?

[pessimizer]

"Tortious" is just as self-deprecating in that sentence. Is it an unfair slight to identity-based security systems, or a overlong Rube Goldbergian explanation of how the current state of the internet came to be?

> Who cares what the spelling is?

People trying to figure out whether an author means "tortious" or "tortuous."

I think it's very respectful to the author to make sure you're reading what they intended to write. When it comes to anything I write/say, please don't separate the art from the artist - just ask the artist what he meant to say.