[pibaker]

I don't think the digital world was ever high trust. I mean, everyone above a certain age is trained to never click on the biggest download button on a page and to uncheck any checkboxes during an installation. A certain open source forge used to bundle malware in downloads. You can't walk two steps without hitting cloudflare. All email providers consider random VPS IP ranges to be spam farms. All web servers with public IPs must be up to date or you get pwned instantly and assimilated into a bot farm.

I can go on and on about how much safety measurements we take online since ages ago and how little trust we have for anything that comes through an Ethernet port. I have never needed such levels of vigilance in real life even though I live somewhere with higher crime rates compared to the national average.