An Interview with Karsten Nohl, Cryptography and Internet Security Expert(atlasobscura.com)
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An Interview with Karsten Nohl, Cryptography and Internet Security Expert
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exit-interview-im-a-cryptospecialist-working-to-secure-the-internet-for-a-billion-people
They have 950 million phones–almost a billion phone lines connected–of which only 5 percent are connected to the internet. So there’s a billion people ready to jump, as soon as you give them a smartphone, and a little bit of money to pay for the internet plan. They will be the next big cohort on the internet.
I didn’t have to worry about phishing, and I clicked on every email because I didn’t receive that much. There was very little spam, and certainly no phishing. I grew into the internet as the internet became more and more evil. As such, I can now behave in more or less secure ways.
Somebody entering the internet for the first time right now does not have that luxury, especially somebody who’s illiterate, or mostly illiterate, who can barely use a tablet computer.
This is a really good point he's making. I sometimes joke with my computer illiterate friends/family that I don't know how they survive in the world these days. But seriously, it's so easy to take for granted that many of us have had the experience of growing along side the Internet and having the time to adapt to it as it became more "evil". Being throw into the "evil" Internet today without that background would be pretty scary/risky. Having entire large chunks of developing countries doing it en masse is just scary/risky on an unprecedented scale.