{"id":199,"date":"2008-12-31T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/ellisons-law\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:34:30","slug":"ellisons-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/ellisons-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellison&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Carl Ellison (a cryptographer at Intel, a great guy) formulated what I call <strong>Ellison&#8217;s Law<\/strong>, which states that <strong>the userbase for strong cryptography declines by <em>half<\/em> with every additional keystroke or mouseclick required to make it work<\/strong>. Think about that when you&#8217;re designing tools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultdeadcow.com\/panel2001\/hacktivism_panel.php\">&#8211;Cult of the Dead Cow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Ellison (a cryptographer at Intel, a great guy) formulated what I call Ellison&#8217;s Law, which states that the userbase for strong cryptography declines by half with every additional keystroke or mouseclick required to make it work. Think about that when you&#8217;re designing tools. &#8211;Cult of the Dead Cow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42,8],"tags":[282,277,283],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-security","category-usability","tag-cryptography","tag-ergonomics","tag-people-wont-use-it-if-they-hate-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}