Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Ah, security through blissful ignorance :) You do not > > actually trust the archive, or the developers, you trust the > > silence. > > I trust special relativity, because nobody has disproven it yet.
Really? I trust the theory of special relativity because there is enormous evidence supporting it, and little evidence against it. In the case of "there are no messages, therefore I trust the security of the system", that's faith — belief in spite of an utter lack of evidence. > Do you think this is blissfull ignorance, too? Worse, it's foolish. In the lack of *any* evidence either way on a question, it's foolish to hold any position but "unknown"; and, if the question is important for a matter of trust, it's imperative to *get* some evidence before extending any trust. -- \ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order | `\ will lose both, and deserve neither." —Thomas Jefferson, in a | _o__) letter to Madison | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]