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vitalik.eth·2026-02-22 19:24

How I think about "security":The goal is to minimize the divergence between the user's intent, and the actual behavior of the system."User experience" can also be defined in this way. Thus, "user experience" and "security" are thus not separate fields. However, "security" focuses on tail risk situations (where downside of divergence is large), and specifically tail risk situations that come about as a result of adversarial behavior.One thing that becomes immediately obvious from the above definition, is tha ...

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