So the facade of security is really a veneer, a titular expression of concern. As in Governance the thieves know the difference between real honest efforts to address an issue and fake snake oil attempts to paint the sky. Influence peddling has become the generic solution to issues and security is no different. The illusion of security is enough to slick the lust and satiate the desire to feel secure. The illusionist lives for the fabricated event most commonly occurring in the media. The thieves live for the actual event of theft and reward, without any ramifications, or at least a series of significant payoffs with minimal punitive damages after a long period of time.

The thieves know one thing that as long as posture is more important that results security is a notional issue that they only have to exploit. This exploitive method has found a home in legal regimes in that most tax issues are focused on the least likely to respond with appeals to the regulatory process. Tax the poor on tobacco, spirits, and health. Exploit the common user, who is ignorance of the abusive practices ramifications. The moral side step taken by industry to separate the applications from the operating systems has effectively left the common user with a fine line to walk and one that has been smudged intentionally. The world of the gray, poorly defined terms and responsibilities is the fodder for exploitation, but unlike or systems or regimes established for commerce the complex nature has rendered the consumer and regulators unable to respond.

The great void in responses to exploitative application regimes, re-enforced by poorly designed operating systems will find equilibrium. This pile of excuses and fake public expressions of honest intent is going to break. The cascading systemic event can and will break the back of our highly complex interdependent society. It may not be a virus or an attack it might be that people fail to trust companies that use this technology as its base for providing the desired service. What will happen if cash in its physical form replaces electronic funds, manual transcripts replace electronic in medical services, and so on. There is a risk that has not been quantified, and that risk is extreme distrust by consumers of the use of software applications.