Security Trumps Convenience
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Trust is a rapidly diminishing commodity for the online purveyors of services to be rendered, social media, and the rest of that internet devoted to the pursuits of cyberidiocracy and the less than skilled devotee at the keyboard.
The cyberslugs like Yahoo and it's 3 billion user information dissemination, facebook and it's endless compromises for it's users, and even the negligent and incompetent Equifax which suffered no consequences and still gets to peddle credit information when it should have been shut down with extreme prejudice ...
But I digress.
The issues of security now lay at the feet of the user. You get to pick and choose those services you will or will not use. You get to go down that road fraught with integrated development environment coders who really don't know how to "write" more than "drag and drop" modules of existing code and "call" themselves programmers.
The bottom line here is that which you do tommorrow depends on what you are doing today. If you can't keep track of your own security needs then you are eventually going to lose things you'd really rather not ... like passwords, personal financials, documents and communications it's all there for the taking.
Those implementations will be offered by some. Where they are not you should take the opportunity to invoke that strong password or utilize that encrypted data stream with the vpn of your choice.
Personally, I am a preemptive strike kind of guy. I want to firewall you before you get too grabby around my stuff. That's why I have written log crunching scripts to tell me when problems are brewing and even automating the firewall of certain infractions without personal intervention.
No I don't trust you. Yes I will throw up my shields at a moment's notice. The internet is a mean and scary place and too many of you frequent those dens of inquity called social media where they're out to either influence you or steal your stuff or both.
I permit entry to my node as long as you appear to behave yourself. One false move and it's over. The rest of you need to increase that caution and step up your security measures too.
The 1980s are over.