Web of trust, the site only trusts certain attesters (yes this would be really bad for Linux).
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SparkyLight@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i don’t quite get why can’t the attester just… lie… about who he is like if I’m using firefox on linux, why cant my linux attester claim to be actually windows attester and say I’m using chrome?
Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Every time somebody calls this “web of trust” I feel the need to remind that really Web of Trust is a system of, well, decentralized manual trust, like with PGP. Like in Retroshare or Freenet for some people.
Every such attempt at replacing the actually relevant meaning of a thing which is still good and needed is suspicious.
Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gah, I actually meant chain of trust… Oops…
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Attestation depends on a few things:
If you’re on iOS or Android, there’s already strong OS level protections that a browser attestation can plugin to (like SafetyNet.)