The definition of "trusted" is the foundation of the conclusions of this article (and of the snarky "no" pages that are so popular), and it really deserves a lo

The definition of "trusted" is the foundation of the conclusions of this article (and of the snarky "no" pages that are so popular), and it really deserves a long and detailed exposition of its own. You may trust those third parties, but as always you also want the facility to easily verify (because your trust can be undermined by a single employee, a single malfunction, a single hack, and so on). When you add the notion of verification the whole evaluation flips.