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> some big companies trust us

Can't the infosec community define and setup a "trust" network?

E.g. everybody trusts a number of people, and trust can be transitive (perhaps with weights). Hence when I read some review the network can compute a trustworthiness value. If the product turns out to be fake, the system can do a backprop and adjust weights. Etc. etc.



You're defo smart with what you're saying

But the challenge would then be to explain something like this to the average non-techie who's just buying some expensive sneakers because they're cool


Yeah, basically a chain of trust certificates like outlined by X.509. I think managing the chain of trust would be a pretty involved process.




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