Bob has no medical training, but has a dremel and practiced on a pig head. He offers to do a filling for his pal. He makes a bit of a botch of it, but he larns from his mistake and carries on. Dentistry is important so it's admirable that Bob ignores the criticism. Bob's first pal is currently fighting off a severe infection, but Bob uses that as a learning experience.
Bob will get there one day!
My favorite expression when things get heated: "Nobody is going to die."
There are exceptions, of course, but a vast majority of the work we do just doesn't matter in the context of life and nature.
Bottom line, explaining away problems by saying 'nobody is going to die' is a downright dangerous statement IMO.
This isn't accurate, e.g. http://cryptome.org/2012/07/chile-comments.htm .
Bad crypto is actually much more dangerous than a single rogue dentist.
I thought this past year taught us that no information is safe. To expect that any system is entirely secure and ever will be is pure egotism.
I am glad to see cryptocat being much more careful with their wording.
As we all know, corporations are people, my friend.
Cryptocat would never be used by Glenn Greenwald, but that's because he is privileged to have access to better crypto.
That's the first time I've heard of using PGP to be a privilege.