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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by falcolas on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:30PM (#25115215)
SSL certificates, which require you to trust someone you’ve never met with the entirety of your digital life. From your social connections to your bank account and everything in between, you’re putting your faith not only in their honesty, but in their ability to limit mistakes.

Not that there’s a better solution yet, but technical solutions like SSL certificates still boil down to trust, and in whom you place your.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by zxcmx on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:00PM (#25116936)
This is also true for your computer hardware, the software you run, the medicines you take, the food you eat, the water you drink...

I guess my point is that that human trust is so pervasive and fundamental that there are diminishing returns to eliminating it.

What will always remain in style I think is accountability. So trust, but have supply chain integrity such that you know who it is that you're trusting and who is responsible when things go wrong.

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