RE: Safety in Insecurity

what it actually does is highlight the dangers of centralization, monopolization, and widespread reliance on single-source systems

J's work was affected and when he told me about it this was pretty much exactly what I thought. First thing I said when he was describing the scenario was "single point of failure" (stating the obvious because he thought the same too).

And by the same token can't deny the convenience either, as with your friend with the Apple products, I had all the kids on iPads/iPhones at one stage because it was stupidly, mind numbingly easy for me to do parental controls and location sharing and all of that and especially at the time of having multiple young children I just needed some things to be easy.

_{we're now in the process of trying to switch everyone to linux and to think more about this sort of thing, but it's HARD when all everyone wants is the easy thing that just works because there's an infinite amount of infinitely better things to think about/do and no one wants to think about the inconvenience of how catastrophic a single point of failure is because "that's not likely to happen"}