On 30 May 2006, Frank Küster verbalised: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> What Martin Krafft showed you was, >>>> >>>> How do I know that person actually was Martin Krafft? >>> >>> This is getting ridiculuous. >> >> With this I tend to agree. Your credulity is unbelievable. >> >>> If what I've read about the incident is correct, the same person >>> also showed a German ID card with identical information about the >>> person. >> >> Holy batmobiles, man, how can you believe that? You weren't there. >> How can you assert that there was a real ID by hearsay? Even if you >> go by the blog posting that opened this discussion, most of the >> people rpesent did not see this so called real ID. Even if the blog >> posting was not exaggerated, all you need is a bunch of people in >> cahoots to play a prank to assure you there was an ID -- and you >> fell for it. > > Okay, so you don't believe the person present was actually Martin > Krafft; or at least you have serious doubts.
I didn't say that either. Why do people keep asserting stronger statements than I am making? Are finer distinctions a lost art? I said: I have no way of knowing if that person was, or was not, Marting; but faced with an issue of identity verification and trust, the default position is to treat him as a bogey. Is this really that hard to understand? Based on this thread, I would think that Stave Langasek was dead on: any transitive trust in Debian's keyring is non-existenet. So, using the signed key as a mesure of trust in the identity of a NM candidate by the DAMS is probably misplaced trust; people are apparently pretty darned gullible in our community. The DAM's should revert to stronger requirements for meat space identity, at their own discretion. manoj -- "I'm growing older, but not up." Jimmy Buffett Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]