Hollywood Hackers

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Jul 31 13:24:32 PDT 2002


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On 31 Jul 2002 at 11:01, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> The issue of node reputation is completely orthogonal to the
> document hashes not colliding. Reputation based systems are
> useful, because document URI 
> http://localhost:4711/f70539bb32961f3d7dba42a9c51442c1218a9100
> doesn't say what's in there. A claim needs to be backed by
> someone (preferably anonymous) with a good reputation trail.

Indeed, but the only working nym based reputation system is that
hosted by Ebay.  Web of trust is not really used much, and
Verisign sucks.

My proposal was to implement a nym based reputation system for
approving content, rather than to assume such a system already
exists.

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