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Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed by jackolas on Sunday February 06, 2011 @09:14PM (#2187243)
Just get it signed, twitter's verified accounts are kind of like this but without any key exchanging involved. Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.
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Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed by thwarted on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:05PM (#2187384)
Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.

I wonder what kind of inroads Facebook could make concerning public knowledge of crypto by allowing people to post cryptographically verified entries using an SSL client cert.

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