As a journalist, I agree with your sentiment :). I try to push my colleagues to adopt a more Unix-like mindset: use tools that are best at the one/few things they do...and stop thinking that technology can solve problems that you know to be intractably difficult. I'm not talking about recognizing the traveling salesman problem, I mean, if it seems complicated to keep your network of confidants both easily accessible and safe and hidden from outsiders...what is it about a piece of technology that makes you think it can all be wrapped up in a general-purpose user-friendly app?

But to be fair, that's a difficult question for many engineers and developers to grasp as well...