On 29 Dec 2000, Mr.Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> IC> I don't think that there is any system that could facilitate
> IC> scalable information request/retrieval which doesn't at least
> IC> place some trust somewhere.
>
> I totally agree. However, the person I was responding to (gosh, lost
> that message already) had said that Freenet now was a "zero-trust"
> system. I think it's more like a 100%-trust system.
Its hardly a 100% trust system.. If that were true we wouldnt have any
secure keytypes. You can't have a zero-trust system, but you also have to
realize that relying on humans for security is also a bad idea. If
history proves anything its that most humans make lousy security people.
Just ask the millions of people whose credit card numbers float the web.
This is one of the shadows over proposals like clustering that rely on
humans to create the security. In many cases, the security they create it
only in their heads.
Scott
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