RE: Crypto Christmas and World Wide Web New Year
For us to survive the future of the world wide wen we certainly need shepherds to protect us from the wolves and wee need many wise and clever folk to protect us from he scammers.
Amen. 100% upvoted and resteemed.
Social Engineering is really the worst part. People who work at customer care etc. are almost always not security savvy people. They are not too clever and they are just trying to help the other guy at the end of the line and move on to the next target. This is much like postal services.
The E-mail would be smart contract based security where the code dictate what happens. It'll be a lot of work to develop all this.
I've repeatedly talked about what you mentioned using shepherds and wise men. I've written over 20 comments. Here is one and here is another and another.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I always value your uncannily wise words. Indeed, I have come to the same conclusion - social engineering is the weakest link- If we can somehow get to grips wit this then it would at least solve 50% of all hacks. I am torn in two these days regarding the subject and have come to a decision that hackers are one thing and scammers are another. In once sense I can see that having the ability to hack can be a powerful a way to stop corruption in dictatorship governments etc - although the real issue is how can we stop corrupt people coming into government in the first place. Scammers. on the other had, I see simply as criminals who just want to steal money from whoever and wherever they can with as little effort as possible.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you my good friend -
It's really like nuclear energy or even nuclear weapons. It's a tool. When a meteor starts descending on Earth you are not going to kill it with C4. Without nuclear power plants large portion of the world would be in dark. A tool will be used in different ways by different people.
Corruption is only possible under an altruism. This is a radical claim and I've removed the raw power aspect for ease as the presence of power permits abuse without a need for corruption(Like a child playing with ants). When a society shuns altruism, there will be many capable people willing to screw the other guy by providing a better service to make a buck.
A person would become less corrupt for his/her own financial gain (kind of a moat/purple cow) and corruption will be raced to the bottom. There can be perfect people but not perfect systems. Human actions cannot and shouldn't be controlled; only incentives should be.
People would pay a premium for convenience. But under altruism this wouldn't work that way. I'm living in a developing country with free healthcare for everyone. But private healthcare is free to compete. The result is that only poor people and middle class people facing expensive surgeries use the public system. People would rather pay up than bear incompetence/inconvenience whenever possible and the entire private healthcare system is built upon this. Even the people who use the free healthcare generally speaks ill of it and praise private hospitals and wish they had enough money to afford that.
Private hospitals have a good name only because they want to make a buck and give a very good care and treat patients really well. The doctors or the staff doesn't neglect anyone and these hospitals don't have a great track record and good public perception compared to free care. (Still, people hate the expenses. But they bear with it)