Things should simply be signed by people and institutions. People who were there or did extensive research vouching for authenticity and accuracy of representat

Things should simply be signed by people and institutions. People who were there or did extensive research vouching for authenticity and accuracy of representation. Signing in hardware is nice, but you then still need to trust the company making the hardware to make it tamper proof and not tampered with by them. Additionally, such devices would have to be locked down to disallow things like manual setting of the time and date. It's a rabbit hole with more and more inconveniences and fewer benefits as you go down it. Better to just go for reputation, and webs and chains of trust in people based approaches.