I just updated the passwords on my seldom-used Yahoo! account and also on some other accounts where I used the same password (quelle horreur!). I have enabled two-step authentication everywhere that it was disabled. I’m wondering if this proves the point made in Swiss pour cold water on our Internet dreams (cost of securing the Internet will exceed the benefits of connectivity by 2019). How much of my life will I spend waiting for text messages to arrive as part of the two-step authentication process? Re-typing fresh passwords into mobile devices?
Separately, given the cost of securing an employee’s electronic devices is more or less fixed (same cost to secure devices for someone who works 1 hour per week as for someone who works 80 hours per week), I wonder if the fact that Russians turned out to be so much smarter than Americans also contributes to the gender pay gap (see “Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap” regarding research by Claudia Goldin of the Harvard econ department; she says that companies pay more per hour to employees who work more hours per week; see also Goldin’s study on parental altruism in the Rationale chapter of Real World Divorce (punchline: at least some parents are happy to make their kids worse off if they can get more cash for themselves)).
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