Where basics (important stuff that an I2P replacement must consider
or handle) are missing, please mention that.
What is "trust"?
- "I trust you, to the extent that I can predict your behaviour"
- A friend, 2012.
- Trust is ultimately a presumption, only ever a temporary proof in the
face of life events.
- Events, particularly those in the face of life's adversarial events,
provides data points
for trust
- Actions of a peer (/"friend") in the face of adversity, suggest the
level to which that
peer can be trusted.
- some events, e.g. Jim Bell's refusal to plead guilty, and the
extended years of jail he
suffered as a result of his stand, are compelling events in relation
to an individual and
how they may be trusted
- Testing a peer, provides data points for trust, "metrics" if we are
testing e.g. network
performance.
- How a human behaves in the micro test, is sometimes echoed in larger
'life events'.
- How many humans do you know, who would go to jail for you, for the
principle of your right
to freedom of communication, rather than sell you out to the Federal
Police by installing
a sniffer on all your network traffic ?
- Aligning with the interests of powerful interests, can also provide a
measure of trust
("predictable outcomes"), though usually by compromise of some other
right or interest that
you have.
- This is the prime modality chosen by those at Tor Inc., thus
their sellout of Jacob
Applebaum - his living of the right to run an independent
directory authority, a or the
prime cause for him being publicly lynched (in the modern
sense of being lynched).
