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by bigiain 4066 days ago
Well, the counter argument is that even if the whole population is going to not have brain tumours - I _still_ don't want "someone who's not a rocket surgeon" doing brain surgery.

Crypto is non-trivial. There'll never be a proper "Click this button to automatically secure your random php app running in cPanel/Plesk".

The best we'll see I suspect is a "click here and make your website pass the minimal checks modern browsers use to determine if you're secure", then we'll have a daily stream of site owners claiming "the PII/password/creditcard breach wasn't my fault - I used 2048 bit encryption!"