On 3/26/11 15:36 , "Joe Sniderman" <joseph.snider...@thoroquel.org> wrote:
>On 03/25/2011 11:12 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: >> >> On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:19 52PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote: >> >>> One could argue that you could try something like the facebook >>> model (or facebook itself). I can see it coming. Facebook web of >>> trust app ;-) >>> >> Except, of course, for the fact that people tend to have hundreds of >> "friends", many of whom they don't know at all, and who achieved that >> status simply by asking. You need a much stronger notion of >> interaction, to say nothing of what the malware in your "friends'" >> computers are doing to simulate such interaction. > >Then again there are all the "friend us for a chance to win $prize" >gimmicks... not a far jump to "friend us, _with trust bits enabled_ for >a chance to win $prize" > >Yeah sounds like a wonderful idea. :P Wasn't PGP based on a web of trust too?