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Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 (1999)

Study shows PGP 5.0's usability flaws hinder encryption adoption.

Cooling
Signal score
13
as of 1d ago
Trajectory
Too early
needs a few more snapshots

Why this scored 13

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+3.8 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+9.8 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.1 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite13.5

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

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1045

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