Also, “trusted,” but there is no mention of “trustworthy.”
Those are terms of art. Given the author of the blog post, I think they actually mean they are building regulatory infrastructure to get (coerce) people to trust stuff based on external / top-down policy, regardless of whether the stuff you have to trust is secure.
This is a great feature for state actors, regulatory compliance shops and Google shareholders, but it’s an anti-feature for end users and businesses that actually care about security.
Those are terms of art. Given the author of the blog post, I think they actually mean they are building regulatory infrastructure to get (coerce) people to trust stuff based on external / top-down policy, regardless of whether the stuff you have to trust is secure.
This is a great feature for state actors, regulatory compliance shops and Google shareholders, but it’s an anti-feature for end users and businesses that actually care about security.