[Cryptography] Trustworthiness

[Ray Dillinger]

On 06/20/2017 11:29 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 
>> The Trusted Platform Module, for example, is named correctly.  
>> "Trusted" means simply that it introduces an additional risk of failure.
> 
> Remember, in this context "trusted" means you *have* to trust it, not 
> because you *can*.
> 

And that is what elevates the pejorative from mere annoyance to outright
obscenity.  You could just as well substitute a whole string of  more
widely recognized obscenities without diminishing the vitriol contained
in that one word "trusted".

				Bear

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