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by peter_d_sherman·1y ago·view on hn ↗
If I ever needed to explain to someone who is in management, that is, who is a businessperson and not a tech person why their data might not be safe, why their allegedly "private" chats and "private" information might not be all that private, why any "secure" financially related things (ability for their business to receive payments, bank accounts working, ATM's working, etc., etc.) might not be all that "secure" -- then this is that explainer video!

This is the best video that I have seen so far -- that can communicate those high-level concepts to a broad, non-technical audience which might otherwise have trouble conceptualizing them.

In terms of communication of those concepts (of why allegedly "secure" might not be all that secure), this video is top notch!

The video is also fairly unbiased, that is, it talks fairly equally about positive and negative aspects, good and bad aspects of this phenomena, that is, it shows the phenomena as a double-edged sword (i.e., a philosophical idea for systems that can either work on behalf of a given party or for it, i.e., it can swing both ways).

So I like the communication and fairly unbiased aspects of this video.

If I had to choose one video for communicating all of the risks I enumerated above (we might call that the "threat horizon" -- you know, let's make up a term to describe it) to CEO's and other management types that might say things like "Of course we're secure, we've spent several $million$ on computer security, we have the best and brightest minds, of course we're secure" -- well, to those types I say, "watch this video and then tell me if you still think you're so certain"...

In summation, this video gets an A++ (from me!) for its ability to communicate this complex set of ideas to people who usually don't understand/grok/relate-to complex sets of ideas...

I'm not saying that everone in management is a Dilbert "Pointy Haired Boss" (PHB) -- but I would argue that in many corporate environments those that are, might outnumber those that are not...

Phrased another way, "The price of eternal freedom -- is eternal vigilance"...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry