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I toyed with the idea of doing something like this ages ago, but decided against it. I felt it would become something akin to signing things, and it's open to
by RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
I toyed with the idea of doing something like this ages ago, but decided against it. I felt it would become something akin to signing things, and it's open to the equivalent of forgery.
What's to stop someone from creating content you don't agree with, and then putting your tag on it?
To partially offset that you could create a page under your control that has a link to every page with a verified personal tag. Use Google alerts to send you the links automatically, and anything you don't recognise, check it out. Have an "I refute ..." or "Name and Shame" section to highlight those occurences that are not legitimate.
- fbailey 17y agothat's a nice and simple solution, I might do this in the future. Since I wanted to extract the data from google and set up a list with links to all my content I could easily decide to not include spam, false comments or just things I'm ashamed of afterwards ;) Of course the verification problem is basically the same now, anybody could sign a comment with my name. #ptfjib80
- arethuza 17y ago"What's to stop someone from creating content you don't agree with, and then putting your tag on it?" You could digitally sign it using secure private key (and if you want to be really secure store the private key on a secure hardware device). Use a X509 cert from a well known CA and pretty much anyone can check whether you wrote it or not. I'm saying this is a good idea though.... Damn - now I have to go and work out how I would implement this....