I do, people are fucking hard to deal with an the entire field of cryptography is a technical solution to that. If you were at the helm it wouldn’t exist.
>There is no way to design an app outside of the British Postal Office that will fulfill their needs and then drop it inside of the British Postal Office and expect to work.
Yet it does every day and you just take it for granted. What voltage electricity do they use? Do they use phones? Do they use email? Do they use TLS? Do they use standard plumbing?
>These are not technological problems. They are human problems.
Human problems are for technology to solve. Keyword exchanges for ensuring Diffie Hellman secrecy are completely to deal with humans and the problem space it’s meant to address.
>Technology cannot solve this simply because technology can always be discarded or misconfigured, despite the technology's design.
Again, this is wrong. If the organization interacts with the public they are forced to interact with interfaces defined by browser manufacturers. It’s getting extremely difficult to run an insecure website that takes passwords without being flagged as such by systems outside of the organization’s control (e.g. chrome).
You can’t just refuse to implement smtp authentication, DKIM, and SPF anymore and expect to be able to email the rest of the world.
Your view is of the world as it existed during the 2000s. A giant buffet of technological choices, some good and some bad. That world is gone.
We now (for better or worse) have minimum bars set by a cabal of large internet companies if you intend to interact with the general public. Safari will not lower the bar for accessing the postal service, no matter how bristled the mustache of the politician who requests it.
The entire field of research you purport to not exist and not matter is what drives this cabal forward. They remove various footguns every day and take the reins out of incompetent operators hands further with every release.
Your argument seems to be “I’ve thought of a case where humans can screw up so therefore the entire field of taking the ability for them to screw up away is invalid”. It’s completely ridiculous and I’m pointing out that it is both active and making major differences.
If you don’t want to participate that’s fine. But telling yourself it’s because it’s an unsolvable problem is just a lie.