On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:57, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:40:12AM -0500, Andrew D. Fant wrote:
> > Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:31:25AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Any dev that you cannot physically verify via government or school
> > >>issued identification and their physical presence, should not be signed.
> > >>Otherwise you are simply weakening the web of trust. In fact, for LWE
> > >>key signing, we require 2 forms of picture identification.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >Most people don't _have_ two forms of picture ID.
> >
> > If you limit it to school and government, it can be hard unless you have
> > a passport, but don't you have two of {drivers license, passport, school
> > ID, work ID, credit card with photo}?
> >
>
> No. I have a driver's license, that's it. No school ID, work ID, credit
> cards, passport, or even a library card 8)
>
> I suspect I can't be the only one. When you consider that and the fact
> that we have devs in pretty isolated areas, I suspect building a web of
> trust will be quite a challenge.
What does the government have to do with the web of trust. If I
"beattie at beattie dash home dot net" produce good work, what more do
you need to know, than that I and the same "beattie at beattie dash home
dot net" who built the wiz-bag foo-bar.
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