[Cryptography] Explaining PK to grandma

[John Young]

Time marches on, the grannies are now the seasoned cryptographers.
Some of whom admit to now being maturely dotty and less cocksure
than in days of abysmal inexperience who were treated kindly by the
grannies of those days feeling no desire to fuck themselves to death,
ie, code demonicly.

Now fucked to death by NSA everybody is condemned to being a
grannie pretending to be quite sure how to regain youthful confidence,
hairy, wrinkle-free, lusty, contemptuous, vain, blithely stupid.

Slowly we, the grannies, wither and die, nobody wanting to hear their
groans and lies of past prowess, conquest and screw-ups (how many
grannies now call for a new kind of Internet, new kinds of comsec),
especially other grannies who have hopped on board Google's
immortality machine, jostling with the fast-aging boy wonders and
Schmidt to avoid Job's liver rot devouring their vainglory.

One of the virtues of advanced age, no matter the gender, is to
laugh at last of the delusional schemes of triumph, then advise
the patheticly malleable youngsters on how to avoid becoming
like us: Before all else, contribute 1/2 of your income to our dole
and hospice hustle. Aka social engineering security.



At 02:56 AM 12/3/2013, you wrote:
>"Wendy M. Grossman" <wendyg at pelicancrossing.net> writes:
>
> >P.S. I am really fed up with elderly females always being the go-to example
> >of the clueless user.
>
>They're not being used as examples of clueless users, they're representative
>personas.  Geeks have a really bad problem of design-for-the-self, creating
>software that's designed for people like themselves.  The best way to combat
>this is through usability testing, except that few developers will ever do
>that.  The next-best thing is to provide them with personas, a mental image of
>someone not like themselves that they can identify with and imagine using
>their software, which will in turn point out that it's unusable by any normal
>human.  So using "your mother" or "granny" isn't stereotyping, it's taking a
>user that they can readily identify with and applying them as a persona to see
>if the software actually is usable.  The alternative is to go back to design-
>for-the-self, which leads to fundamentally unusable software.
>
>Peter.
>
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