> more aligned to the internet in the early days when there was more trust.

please for the love of alan turing understand that trust happens iff there are reasonably-enforceable boundaries, and "oh we're friends, let's opt out of reasonable information-theoretic security primitives" is not a healthy or friendly behavioral pattern.

/ if your PKI is so obnoxiously difficult to set up correctly that people are inclined to skip the crypto altogether, please get help.

sorry for the grouchy tone, I'm just sick of hearing software engineers pretend that shoddy quality control issues and products riddled with security holes is somehow positive.