Comment by yorwba
Unless you can be fooled into trusting a fake endorser, that island might just as well not exist.
Unless you can be fooled into trusting a fake endorser, that island might just as well not exist.
> there has to be somebody who decides what the default is
Sure. This happens with ad blockers, for example. I imagine Elsevier or Wikipedia would wind up creating these lists. And then you’d have the same incentives as you have now for fooling that authority.
> or people just don't care very much
This is my hypothesis. If you’re an expert, you have your web of trust. If you’re not, it isn’t that hard to start from a source of repute.
> Unless you can be fooled into trusting a fake endorser
Wouldn’t most people subscribe to a default set of trusted citers?