A report from the Enigma conference

Security is a social phenomenon, who'd think that? Yes, at the bottom of all that it's a question of trust. Trust your distro, trust your hardware vendor (HAH), trust the theoreticians who know much more than you...

We geeks get so worked up about the technical aspects of security that we tend to forget that technology is just an instrument to help us in making transparent *what* or *who* it is we decide to trust.

One thing which was somewhat appalling for me was this perspective of the "big platforms" on this problem: users as a somewhat dumb mass you've got to nudge so they do what you think is the right thing (and for that you experiment with them, as if they were cell cultures). This, for me, is dystopia, and is the reason I try (at some cost) to avoid the Facebooks and Googles of this world.