>If so, it's the sign you have a low trust society in a more general sense. Isn't that kind of orthogonal to the question? I can envision both high or low tru

>If so, it's the sign you have a low trust society in a more general sense. Isn't that kind of orthogonal to the question? I can envision both high or low trust societies that could have problems with required 3rd parties attached to personal property. Even the most well intentioned and highly trusted 3rd party is still susceptible to malicious attacks, or just incompetence or plain old accidents.