[chatmasta]

An alarming amount of societal functionality depends on what effectively amounts to the honor system. This is especially true when it comes to any sort of gatekept specialty profession, like coroners for example.

There was a great talk at DefCon about faking death: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs

[corporate_shi11]

This is an incredibly important comment. You cannot legislate loyalty to the country. You cannot legislate morality. You cannot legislate most of what makes a country a hospitable place to make a life.

Culture matters more than anything else.

[cortesoft]

I don't know if that is a solvable problem. Society is trust, and it always takes trusting someone to make any system work.

People try to build trust-less systems all the time (like blockchains) but always run up against someplace where trust is required.

[oefrha]

Trust, but verify. In the TFA case at least, it shouldn’t be that hard to call the office’s number (not the filled out Google Voice number of course, but there has to be a number published by/available through reliable parties) and confirm “is it really your office who’s registering the domain”? if (printed on official letterhead) { return authorized; } is beyond stupid.

[cortesoft]

Right, but then you are trusting that number list... how is that generated? Can I call someone up and get that number changed?