I don't totally buy that. I do to a small degree. But its kind of like saying we should give people cars without making them learn how to drive.

We live in a day and age where everyone wants the quick fix, and the easy solution. But to use a tool properly, you need to understand some things about that tool. And when you try to make it overly simple, bad things (as we are seeing here) can happen.

I'm not by any means saying people need a perfect understanding of wifi or networks or security. But I don't think its unfair to require people to do a little bit of reading of a manual to set something up. Having "better things to do in life" is not an excuse for getting out of everything we find complicated. Its narcissistic to think that the ONLY things that are worthwile are the things ONLY oneself is interested in.

Sometimes we have better things to do, absolutely. But sometimes life requires we dig into projects we find boring to get things done correctly.

Simply setup for networks? Absolutely. But at the cost of security for the benefit of ease? Not what I would call ideal.

Yes, because I'm paranoid. Hahahaha, just kidding. I'm really not. I use it in a few situations. Most important to me, is communication with my wife. We encrypt all emails, because sometimes we need to send something like bank account numbers or passwords or similar things. I love the added security that comes from having those encrypted. I also use encryption sometimes at work, not often, but I work in research and its nice to be able to send documents to my boss and back encrypted. Even though I have no thoughts that anyone is trying to take it, still when the document represents four years of difficult research, I like not worrying about anyone getting except my boss. But probably the biggest, most frequent, reason I use it is for the signatures. I sign all my emails now. And I really wish that was standard practice in the world. Spam would become almost non-existant if you could get everyone to implement signatures. Frankly its incredibly easy to use and set up, so I can't really see the arguments against using. The only one you tend to hear is "why? no one wants to see my stuff". That's a week argument for me. It may be fine for others, but for me I guess its more of a "why not?" If you have people that are interested in it around you, use it. If they don't care, then you don't have much of a choice.