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There is no domain trust problem, because there is no trust to be had on domains.

• immibis 2y ago
  do you trust that you are on Hacker News right now?
  • mindcrime 2y ago
    Maybe it would be better to say "there is no inherent trust on domains". I trust HN today because I was on HN yesterday, and the day before, and last year, and 10 years ago, etc., and it's always been trustworthy (so far as I know). But if I saw a link tomorrow for hackernews.shop and I went there, I'd be very suspicious.
  • zokier 2y ago
    What I meant was that you can not put any trust in the contents of DNS labels, they should be handled as opaque blob-like identifiers. The only meaningful thing you can do with domain name is to compare it's labels to some reference. So no, I don't trust that I'm on HN because of I put any trust in the domain "news.ycombinator.com" signifying anything. I only trust that I'm on same HN that I was on yesterday because the domain matches exactly the reference value. But the domain name could be anything, as long as it is stable.
  • motorest 2y ago
    > do you trust that you are on Hacker News right now? Is Hacker News asking for my credit card or impersonating any other site?
  • bdangubic 2y ago
    where am I…??