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EDI/EBCDIC on leased lines, yes! Jokes aside, the embedded web-of-trust sounds very interesting. Can you elaborate on that? Would switches and routers be "ce

• 3pt14159 8y ago
  No, there would be no silly certifications or centralized point(s) of control. If you buy a new phone your trust starts at 0 your mobile provider (that you pay money to) could start you off with a little trust, but start spamming servers / phone numbers / emails and you get locked out. Because the WoT is at the networking layer if you start spamming signal to the tower you're connecting to you're effectively treated the way we treat people that operate jammers now: Jail time. The WoT has a concept of "depth" or "importance" so even if all of your closest friends are angels that live in Toronto and follow the law, and even if you're an upstanding netzien, you can't just call Vladimir Putin's phone number. That there is some measure of non-connectivity is a feature not a bug. We'll be able to start running our own email servers again! We won't have to worry about telephone calls from awful marketing companies! It won't be a utopia, computers will still get hacked and your keys will be misused until they're detected and replaced, but at least we won't have to worry about Grandma get swindled out of her inheritance.