A good summary of the state of things. It's great to see the penny
dropping for more people, and the different ways they each have of
expressing that epiphany.
A couple of thoughts/criticisms:
"The Rot Economy" and "Enshitification" are different approaches to
describing terminal (self-devouring) stages of Capitalism which are
thoroughly examined in political sciences (eg. Marx, Sombart). We
have definitely entered that stage and things are accelerating far
beyond expectations. That road-map is valuable and I wish more people
had it in their toolbox of ideas/vocabulary.
> "it’s time to start holding those responsible accountable."
I disagree with this scapegoating. We are responsible. We are all
personally responsible. I am. You are. And never before in history
have we had so much power to exercise that responsibility.
I'm writing an extended series on this. If you're interested it starts
here:
Inteesting indeed, you're right that everyone is more culpable than they think (but it also means we have the power enact change). Do share more once the series is out.
Nice article, you also see that in content - creators using the same hooks, transitions etc. It gets tiresome after seeing the same "stop doing X this way/try this one trick/top ten" after a while.
Besides profit motive, there are fundamental and evolutionary reasons for the convergence - humans are naturally attracted to pleasing composition and natural light in AirSpace, have our attention easily manipulated by unconventional titles etc. So companies are just exploiting our penchants and preferences.
100% agree, just that sometimes not every company has the resources or inclination to do that. The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.
> The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.
Oh that is the "best" "middle" ground, is it? Are you sure?
Why should anyone bring their personal device just because the company is to cheap to buy a few phones and then have them basically owned by their IT anyways? Do you realize how crazy that is?
You might want to think about that one again.
Every SMB can afford a few cheap phones for its employees, MFA apps dont need flagship hardware. If a company can't, maybe it shouldn't be in business anyway.
AviD's Rule of Usability: "Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security."
Security companies should have more focus on the usability aspect of their product. Some of the enterprise products you see today are just plain bad in terms of UX/UI, and funnily enough, they aren't getting called out since they're only used in the workplace/closed groups.
this is why i have a problem with flatpacks. i’ve tried using an immutable distro with flatpacks and it’s made me want to disable every flatpack security measure because it’s even harsher and less usable than macos’s sandboxing. i don’t know what their goal is but it’s definitely not usable if i can’t connect 1password to my browser or i struggle to get steam to access another drive
Yeah there's a certain amount of effort most people are willing to put in to do something. If it's too high, it won't happen. Yet at the same time a certain baseline is needed to not end up being low hanging fruit for attackers.
I've also seen this, especially in security tools. The usability is often straight out of the 90s which keeps me wondering, who uses this voluntarily?
