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The same medium that makes it hard to fix mistakes makes it hard to commit that many mistakes to begin with. And paper is distributed, hard to counterfeit and
by Banana699 4y ago
The same medium that makes it hard to fix mistakes makes it hard to commit that many mistakes to begin with.
And paper is distributed, hard to counterfeit and long-lasting in ways we haven't figured out how to replicate in electrons yet.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoIt's actually extremely easy to distribute something signed so that you're sure it's "authentic", at least that no bits are wrong. Assuming that somewhere in the chain, there exists trust. But it's the same with books, you have no way to know a book is authentic without buying it from a valid store
- lliamander 4y agoTrue, though the process of establishing the trust and authenticity around digitally signed artifacts is not as widely established or disseminated as it is with print media. Also, establishing what a signature means often requires out-of-band information. I really like the concept of annotations for a signature that would communicate the signer's relationship to the work: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1545 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1545