Question

2. How could the usability of the Internet been crippled if the underlying Internet technologies had incorporated more security? Need two paragraphs

Answer 1

Ans: The lack of security makes data flow much more easily and brings openness and freedom of information. It’s the main reason you can visit any site you want, even if it’s not a very good idea to go there.

Usability and internet security are inversely proportional to one another: increased security results in less usability, and vice-versa. So if the underlying Internet infrastructure had more security, browsing the internet may have been a very cumbersome task. It would have most likely been a clumsy multi-step process involving the user keeping track of websites’ public keys. Similarly, for accessing your email, it may have involved entering a password, a visually encrypted code, followed by a one-time code sent to you via SMS. This would have increased security but led to an extremely low degree of usability, leading to the internet not growing at the exponential pace we have seen till now.