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Re:Show HN: ProveTrust, a user trust reputation system for t... by somerandomness on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:22PM (#8076405)
What other accounts would you be comfortable associating with this trust profile? Would you hook up your GitHub?
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Re:Show HN: ProveTrust, a user trust reputation system for t... by drdaeman on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @04:00PM (#8076619)
I'd hook up my PGP key. Or X.509 certificate. Or old good username and password pair. Something I can truly own and handle. Why do I need some third party to have an identity?

Then I'd enlist accounts with any imaginable third parties (email addresses, Facebook, VKontakte, Google+, BitCoin addresses, GitHub, BitBucket, StackOverflow and so on and so on) as something I have at the moment.

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