The German philosopher Niklas Luhmann characterized the motivation for trust is to reduce complexity. Confidence artists quickly realized that reduced complexity could be easily replaced with hidden uncertainty with odds in their favour.…...

I find the spam versus non-spam discussion much more interesting.…...

The last few days we saw a new level of cyber warfare: kick the adversary out of the cyber realm completely. What we witnessed as a jaw-dropping attack via a supply chain makes you wonder if you can trust any factory manufactured electronic device.…...

Trust is the reverse proxy server for authority.…...