Cringely rediscovers the web of trust

[Udhay Shankar N]

Actually, to be fair, what he's proposing appears to be a reputation system 
which works with nyms - a scalable version of Advogato, perhaps?

What are the list's comments?

Udhay

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031009.html

I'm With Stupid:
How Having Friends Might Be the Key to Both Privacy and Identity
By Robert X. Cringely

I've been thinking what passes at my house for deep thoughts about identity 
and privacy -- thoughts spurred both by my columns of the last several 
weeks and the reaction of readers to them. At one extreme, we have identity 
zealots who would plant microchips in our kids. At the other extreme, we 
have privacy zealots who don't want anyone anywhere to know anything about 
them or about what they do. Somewhere in the middle, we can probably place 
most of the rest of us. It is doubtful that we can fully satisfy both 
extremes at the same time, so the real question is what path will give us 
the most identity for the least loss of privacy or the most privacy with 
the least amount of identity?

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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

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