Yes and no. I am not talking about 2 friends connecting their sims, I am thinking in thousands. I can't have in my computer a database with thousands of "trusted" users... well I can, but I don't want to waste space.
Visa, Paypal, American Express, etc... all are trusted organizations. When you make a monetary transaction you (or the web where you are, or the bank that web uses...) will always connect with one of these "trusted" services. I could trust in you, but you need to tell me "you are really you" with a local login (i.e. email headers can be altered to impersonate as another person) or someone I trust should tell it to me (i.e. OpenID). Sorry for the off-off-topic :-( 2009/11/24 Robert A. Knop Jr. <[email protected]> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Impalah Shenzhou wrote: > > How can I trust anyone who hasn't been authorized through a well known > > trusting system? > > The same way you trust people you meet through e-mail, the same way you > trust websites from which you purchase things and to which you give your > credit card. There doesn't have to be a single central authority > controlling all identity and holding all data for you to be able to > trust something enough to do business with it. > > -- > --Rob Knop > E-mail: [email protected] > Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/ <http://www.pobox.com/%7Erknop/> > Blog: > http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/<http://www.sonic.net/%7Erknop/blog/> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLC9X7fEn1oMJSrdsRAu/zAJ4iCn8vJQOrxp4bCzTZcc4FUQ/JRgCgiTHG > GdfRSMitA6h+vVcM+IYklVk= > =OdkZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > >
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