Re: [9fans] datakit

["Wes Kussmaul" <wes@village.com>]

> like many successors WS begins to make
> some of the worst cursed predecessors start to look good:
> a vast and growing collection of incomplete complexity,

Quote from VARBusiness cited in a recent book ;):

"Seek out security solutions that are complex
and require additional software and hardware."

Widget-driven economics and a military view of security encourage
complexity. Journalists often assume that the complexity is unintended. It's
not. It's a means to keep the customer down on the plantation and utterly
dependent.

> the curious thing about the rise of complexity this time is
> that as far as i can tell, there seems to be no significant
> counter-culture to it, as there has been in times past.

Professional obfuscators and FUD-complexifiers get better at their craft, as
we all do. They learn how to diminish the influence of their adversaries.

> ``where you gonna go?  where you gonna run? ...''

I know that ID-PKI appears to be a contributor to complexity. Done properly,
it is just the opposite. Please take another look.

> i say that in the hopes that someone will say:
> it's just building up momentum over here ...

It's building up momentum over here.