* David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-22 23:15]: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> formal trust metrics can be gamed. That's also how humans > >> are wired. > > > > Sure, but not to any useful extent if they are person-centric > > and there is no worthwhile gain. There is no spam in my RSS > > reader and none in my Twitter timeline. > > Okay, I concede: Once again I'm spouting straw men. Last > year's flap with the possibly deliberate compromise of Debian > ssh occurred at a high ring of trust that would have been the > same with or without formal metrics. > > Or would formal metrics have raised flags early?
I’m not sure what that has to do with what I said. That trust was institutional, not person-centric. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
