Whom Must You Trust? 120
CowboyRobot writes: 'In ACM's Queue, Thomas Wadlow argues that "Whom you trust, what you trust them with, and how much you trust them are at the center of the Internet today." He gives a checklist of what to look for when evaluating any system for trustworthiness, chock full of fascinating historical examples. These include NASA opting for a simpler, but more reliable chip; the Terry Childs case; and even an 18th century "semaphore telegraph" that was a very early example of steganographic cryptography. From the article: "Detecting an anomaly is one thing, but following up on what you've detected is at least as important. In the early days of the Internet, Cliff Stoll, then a graduate student at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in California, noticed a 75-cent accounting error on some computer systems he was managing. Many would have ignored it, but it bothered him enough to track it down. That investigation led, step by step, to the discovery of an attacker named Markus Hess, who was arrested, tried, and convicted of espionage and selling information to the Soviet KGB."'
Correct usage? (Score:3, Informative)
The predicate comes first in this sentence?
Whom you trust ... ? (Score:4, Informative)
Who vs. Whom
This rule is compromised by an odd infatuation people have with whom -- and not for good reasons. At its worst, the use of whom becomes a form of one-upmanship some employ to appear sophisticated. The following is an example of the pseudo-sophisticated whom.
http://www.grammarbook.com/gra... [grammarbook.com]
Re:Uplink was visionary (Score:2, Informative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It makes many of the same arguments as the previous post in a rigorous way, drawing on social science research and game theory for support. Well worth reading for those interested in trust and security.
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