| I lost trust in the user's of PGP in 2000 at the Free Software Meeting. I was interested in crypto. Met theses guys that were hackers while I was a sysadmin specialized in SMTP(s). And among the community of the dark warlords running openBSD (not a dev, just a user), I met this one guy explaining me correctly the whole ring of trust stuff. I incidently had read the howto, generated my fingerprint, and prepared myself for key signing. And then, he proudly told me that he had his cats public key trusted by some others elite hackers. And it was true. I checked. And I threw away my fingerprints understanding it was human nature the problem, not the techno. Before this day I had some doubt about the security experts, the balance being a tad on the pretty unsure they look like frauds. After this days the balance has been seriously going on the distrust side. And more and more ever after. I would accept he was not DJB and not a top one, but most of the community of security enthusiasts out of the coders and researchers look like football fanatics that are more interested in a posture or a status than anything else. And to be honest I honestly like most technologies, PHP/js/Perl/Fortran/C/C++ included, but now it is the crowds around the technologies I have difficulty coping with. As much as I have no problem with sports, but I have problem with sports enthusiasts/fans. |
And, again, as you mentioned, those were security experts.
You think that your neighbor won't fall for that?