> the vast majority of users choose to be insecure.
This is incorrect. The vast majority of users choose to use the things they purchase for the intended features. They usually make no choice whatsoever about security. Your posts in this thread have been trying to blame users for poor product design; if something is badly insecure when used for the intended features, then it is defective.
This is where you probably want to assert that remote management is the solution, which takes control away from the user and allows defects to be fixed at a later time. You have asserted many times that allowing users to control their own devices is "less secure". This conclusion may be true in some cases, but it is simply incorrect most of the time.
When you take control away from the user and give it to the manufacturer (or other remote location), you are creating a backdoor that the user cannot override. Adding a remote backdoor is weakening security for the user. If you want to argue this, you're going to have to explain why both the FBI and Apple were wrong in their recent conflict about pushing a broken OS to a certain iphone.
Yes, users have very little knowledge about computer security. The solution to that is to educate them and make better products that don't need as much technical knowledge to use safely. Only then will security be improved. Your solution of handing over control to someone else is trying to keep users ignorant while lowering user security.
You seem more interested in putting words in my mouth than having a real discussion, so I will simply say that if you want to go with that metaphor, having a backdoor is preferable to having no walls.
This is incorrect. The vast majority of users choose to use the things they purchase for the intended features. They usually make no choice whatsoever about security. Your posts in this thread have been trying to blame users for poor product design; if something is badly insecure when used for the intended features, then it is defective.
This is where you probably want to assert that remote management is the solution, which takes control away from the user and allows defects to be fixed at a later time. You have asserted many times that allowing users to control their own devices is "less secure". This conclusion may be true in some cases, but it is simply incorrect most of the time.
When you take control away from the user and give it to the manufacturer (or other remote location), you are creating a backdoor that the user cannot override. Adding a remote backdoor is weakening security for the user. If you want to argue this, you're going to have to explain why both the FBI and Apple were wrong in their recent conflict about pushing a broken OS to a certain iphone.
Yes, users have very little knowledge about computer security. The solution to that is to educate them and make better products that don't need as much technical knowledge to use safely. Only then will security be improved. Your solution of handing over control to someone else is trying to keep users ignorant while lowering user security.