On 03/25/2011 11:12 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:19 52PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote: > >> One could argue that you could try something like the facebook >> model (or facebook itself). I can see it coming. Facebook web of >> trust app ;-) >> > Except, of course, for the fact that people tend to have hundreds of > "friends", many of whom they don't know at all, and who achieved that > status simply by asking. You need a much stronger notion of > interaction, to say nothing of what the malware in your "friends'" > computers are doing to simulate such interaction.
Then again there are all the "friend us for a chance to win $prize" gimmicks... not a far jump to "friend us, _with trust bits enabled_ for a chance to win $prize" Yeah sounds like a wonderful idea. :P -- Joe Sniderman <joseph.snider...@thoroquel.org>