key question

MFPA expires2010 at ymail.com
Sat Feb 27 01:30:21 CET 2010


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Hi David


On Friday 26 February 2010 at 10:12:29 PM, you wrote:


> The nefarious UID signature is not uncommon.  There are many
> "president at whitehouse.gov" keys (and other famous figures) that have
> signed well-known keys.  It's just easily-ignored noise, though, and
> has no impact on the web of trust.


No impact on the web of trust. But your online presence (and possibly
that of somebody else with the same name) can feed into decisions
about employing you or doing business with you, often/usually made by
people who don't actually understand the information they find.



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