-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 reynt0 wrote:
> Risk is objective; security is subjective. > ... > Looking for risk is being awake; feeling secure is being > asleep. Well said. One also wonders if You also sell Insurance. :) > A newbie who is aware they don't know much, may well *feel* > the reason they need crypto is because not much is trustable, > and they *feel* a healthy anxiety. And though it may well > happen to be that what is called "Web of Trust" is among > useful tools for dealing with the problems, one is not > teaching newbies psychological skills of telling how they > can trust or not, one is (should be) teaching how to *think* > weighing "risks" and showing how crypto is a tool to reduce risk. > So newbies may be due some slack when they don't do well with > learning "trust" as logic, because it isn't logic. Sadly, teaching 'how to think' is the most difficult task imaginable. Everyone has a 'WoT' but they don't realize it most of the time. All a 'Web of Trust' means is Who do You rely upon to consistently behave/act in any given situation. Most folks utilize their 'brain housing group' to preform 'Trust Calculations' each & every time they interact with another Human Being. They just don't realize that this is what they are doing. "Weighing Risks" is done with every transaction with another individual. I feel that every encounter with another person is a 'trust calculation' and is based upon the logic of past experience applied to '1st impression' re-calculated with increased observation of behavior. This is why the majority of people will kill to defend "Mom" because She is assigned Ultimate Trust through lifetime experience. Therefore, I disagree with Your assertion that trust isn't based upon 'logic' since all logic is the application of experience in the present moment. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Tuesday 02 Dec 2008, 08:17 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10-svn4878: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://www.gswot.org Comment: Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJJNTVjAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsP5REH/1JlgocBtZL+7DIoBkwoggvo arwQYizWpK5WHdXhj0CI97xvWsRtVlT/3QgKV034GtK/AU4KHrRQWFLnf8BMVsKL v52ZC7fc0kcE3C0y5QaxFSqR5MMPQMGrR8c15pN/u66greWQvdwF/ZErq04G3dX2 mRDZbyhbI4vlH/jEWXzSS9BykHA0zFOPI0U4iLAKrvarprBevSe355y3iVbyUCRW /D+IXBfWLJHyfMtBR1pUvdgOzHw0HKcyQUuI2/yvN+rInmDmPpTAOq1iJ3mhgKJY UvzzJjNdVKne4H4agW5JgT8HSgwQYYzQsGGazsb0znRGtc9UAZuFylExlgNKZNU= =mNdv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users