foaf+ssl was: XAuth critiques

[Story Henry]

On 9 Jun 2010, at 00:54, SitG Admin wrote:

>> And the social aspect is exactly how Facebook and LinkedIn increase the quality of the data: it is crowd sourcing of attribute validation. Your friends are the people who vouch for you.
> 
> *dreamily* I've always wanted to break Facebook . . . just to prove how weak their model really is ;)

Facebook's problems (and strengths) are elsewhere: their ownership of the network. It's their strength, because they did not have to wait for us to come up with a solution before showing us all how important social networks are. Their weakness, which can be overcome, is their centralisation: since many groups cannot join such a network.

The network of trust, is what they built their business on. We just believe this can be extended to a much larger sphere of operation: the world.

As Linus Torvalds said in his presentation on Git [1]

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The way merging is done is the way real security is done... by a network of trust. If you have ever done any security work and it did not involve the concept of network of trust it wasn't security work. It was masturbation.
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> -Shade, too, refrains from overselling

Ooopps, did I just do it again?

Henry

[1] 27 minutes into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8