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Sometimes it feels like the only way to fix these problems is for the(ir) world to burn once.


There's a serious problem with human beings. A very loud, emotionally charged warning used to work perfectly for us. "SABERTOOTH TIGER!" is obvious and it's useful for the warning to be delivered with such emotional force.

However, there's a problem when the severe danger is disguised by layers of abstraction and complexity and obscured by time. Even emotionally neutral warnings will trigger our psychological attack defenses in these cases.

Note, I'm not saying op did anything wrong. What I am saying, is that delivering negative feedback about anything complex is itself a complex operation!

A security membrane which needs this kind of feedback to work correctly should be viewed as having a serious design flaw.


“We’re reaching out to negotiate for the decryption key.”

“There is no key.”




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