Are the usual suspects the only problem?
When we talk of communication security, we are reminded of various threats from the usual suspects such as: Insider threat, Tool bloat backlash, Hackers, State actors with terrorism in mind, mobile device security and enterprise vulnerability, etc. We recently discovered all of the above issues are trivial compared to reality. Today, networks and communication technologies are not at all secure. Everything is broken. Everybody is vulnerable. Even the pillars of trust in capitalism are all in question today [1] . Let us see how…. Secrecy usually attempts to hide information that can be gleaned through simple observation and analysis from others, while privacy attempts to keep communications between people from being intercepted. Today, at an individual level there is neither security nor privacy. Let us look at a simple example. Advertisers push medical advertisements based on the open transcripts of a voice message that the doctor leaves on a patien...