Friday, June 1, 2007
Question 6: Security versus convenience.
We know that our community wants their computers and services both on their desks and in our public environments to be easy to use, and want data to be accessible. However, the direction of legal decisions in this country requires more and more security consciousness. How do we go about finding a balance between security and convenience?
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I really wish this was not framed as compulsory because of "legal decisions." There have been very few cases that have gone to trial from which clear precedents about IP/IT law can be discerned. Settlements are only binding on the parties that settle; briefs make interesting reading for some; but adjudicated decisions and tested legislation are another matter, and there is no reason to think that Congress and the courts have gotten anything right yet in InfoAge, let alone started to think about Web2.0.
There are stronger arguments for security that come out of the academic tradition of freedom and respect for individual integrity, and those are the ones that I think will "buy" the support of our community members.
As to the actual question - balancing security and convenience - I don't know. But compliance and convenience have a sympatico relationship; I think one reason why we all buckle up and our parents never did was that safety restraints in contemporary cars are so much easier to engage than they were in the mid-60s.
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There are stronger arguments for security that come out of the academic tradition of freedom and respect for individual integrity, and those are the ones that I think will "buy" the support of our community members.
As to the actual question - balancing security and convenience - I don't know. But compliance and convenience have a sympatico relationship; I think one reason why we all buckle up and our parents never did was that safety restraints in contemporary cars are so much easier to engage than they were in the mid-60s.
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