Anders Rundgren wrote:
This is BTW not too different to PayPal which I guess works so well
because it owns the entire customer-base and doesn't have to mess
with other competing/collaborating partners.
Ahhh... Paypal :) Now there is a poignant example.
Paypal is awful. Its security is woeful. It's a mess. Its business
concept is a lie unto its own vision. It's practically the #1 phishing
victim. There's even a book about it ...
Yet, it won the market [1].
How do we deal with a world where something as bad, engineering-wise, as
Paypal is the dominant product?
Well, with a lot of pragmatism, and a lot of skepticism about the
excessive number of one true religions.
Anders
user of flawed security solutions, developer of new concepts
:)
iang
[1] For Nelson and others, this was my real business, not crypto, I was
in probably the #2 opposing camp, and that camp didn't make it because
of its own stupidity. But its security was much better than Paypal,
around 10 times better by one objective measure.
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