Keys not trusted

Mon May 19 08:56:01 2003

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On Friday 16 May 2003 21:56, John A. Martin wrote:

[trading vulnerabilities against security]

> We lock flimsy doors with weak locks so that it becomes _breaking and
> entering_ when someone enters by forcing a door.

Yes, but on a house, I can *see* that it is easy to smash the windows. Peop=
le=20
know and fully understand that a locked door can be kicked in.=20

Computers are still mysterious to many people (and probably always will be)=
,=20
they don't understand what's happening, and thus they can't understand what=
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can go wrong. They have to trust the experts. There is no easy way to look =
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a computer and tell how easy it is to break in.

cheers
=2D- vbi

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Available for key signing in Z=C3=BCrich and Basel, Switzerland
                     (what's this? Look at http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro)

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