Web of Trust (a revolution)

[m]

Tim wrote:
> Bill Crawford:
>>> Ought to be possible for people to visit companies' offices and sign their keys, 
>>> and add them to the "web of trust" as per PGP / GPG keys. No idea if / how that 
>>> should be done, in practice, though.
>  
> 
> m:
>> Difficult at best, who wants to trust a faceless corporation? Not to be 
>> cynical but you might trust the receptionist but what about the IT dept? 
>> Are they competent?...
> 
> I wonder if we were to contact our bank's tech support and ask if we
> could confirm their SSL certificate with them (e.g. read the fingerprint
> info over the phone), how many of them could actually do it?  Or even
> understand.
> 
Your going to tempt me to try that and I have no doubt I'd have to start 
keeping my money under the matress after I got off the phone. ignorance 
is bliss,  ignorance is bliss, ignorance is bliss.

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root at max's_brain#shutdown -r now

huh? did you say something?

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