“Your security advice is too difficult, I don’t want to log in when I start my computer or have to mess around when I have to install new software,” a lady told me on the weekend.
Security is always inconvenient. It would be far more convenient if car doors weren’t locked and starting them was a matter of flicking a switch.
Of course we know if that was the case, most cars would be stolen within hours of buying them.
We accept the inconvenience of car keys because we know the cost of having a vehicle stolen is way higher than the occasional frantic search for lost car keys.
Right now we don’t value our data, computers or smartphones the same way.
This is changing and as we start using our phones as electronic wallets we’ll start valuing our passwords and online security more than our car keys.