Oh please. If you're going to try to make a defense of an invalid point, spare us the "you didn't read my posting" defense.

If you're now making the point that politics and government abuse (which were some of the points which you seem to be trying to duck) don't impact everyone, perhaps you could explain why these issues are of such interest to the news media?

And could you also please give us one example where a broken security model on the internet didn't cause problems later on? Thanks.