Bob has no medical training, but has a dremel and practiced on a pig head. He offers to do a filling for his pal. He makes a bit of a botch of it, but he larns from his mistake and carries on. Dentistry is important so it's admirable that Bob ignores the criticism. Bob's first pal is currently fighting off a severe infection, but Bob uses that as a learning experience.
If a growing portion of the dentistry industry was discovered to have been weakening people's teeth at the government's request, I'd start to buy Bob a beer a little more often.
It turns out Bob was actually receiving radio transmissions from the ADA through his fillings. He's a sleeper in the underground dentist community, waiting for the call to turn his xray machine on when the TSA releases its ruling on the need for back-scatter surveillance to prevent the next tooth-bomber from hijacking civilian aircraft. Be careful what you say around Bob.
Unfortunately, I don't think the 'Nobody is going to die' statement holds up for software like cryptocat. If it is promoted as secure, then it could be used in areas with hostile regimes. For example, members of the Arab Spring uprising might have trusted cryptocat, but what if their governments were intercepting and decrypting those messages due to a flaw in the software?
Bottom line, explaining away problems by saying 'nobody is going to die' is a downright dangerous statement IMO.
Are there any other dentists around who would work on Bob's pal? If so, are they actually better dentists than Bob? If so, is it possible for Bob's pal to find, enter, and understand their places of business, well enough to receive the care she requires?
Cryptocat would never be used by Glenn Greenwald, but that's because he is privileged to have access to better crypto.
Bob has no medical training, but has a dremel and practiced on a pig head. He offers to do a filling for his pal. He makes a bit of a botch of it, but he larns from his mistake and carries on. Dentistry is important so it's admirable that Bob ignores the criticism. Bob's first pal is currently fighting off a severe infection, but Bob uses that as a learning experience.
Bob will get there one day!