On Mar 26, 2011, at 12:21 12AM, Franck Martin wrote: > > > 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? > Yes -- see Valdis' posting on that: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034651.html
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb