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by arkaeologic 1149 days ago
Just a small note: "trust but verify" is not a reasonable statement, and it was also unreasonable in its original context, which I encourage anyone to research.

If you can verify, trust is not required.

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The idea is "trust early, verify eventually"

As opposed to "trust blindly"

The opportunity to verify immediately is rarely available.

I think it is usually used in context of "we don't verify because we don't trust you but because mistakes always happen".
How do you verify, that the requirements where correctly understood, if not by having another human look at it?