Editing Web of trust

A '''web of trust''' is a [[public key infrastructure]] component that mirrors a [[social network]]:  listing '''who trusts who''' to identify themselves and to verify when [[digital signature]] and/or [[email address]] has changed, or if a person is dead, disabled or removed from their position w.r.t. some [[role account]].

There are various ways to think about using such a structure - one of the common but poorly advised ways to use it is to represent positive [[repute]] - an error made at [[advogato.org]] and perhaps also at [[Wikipedia]] quite soon:

*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-February/014300.html proposal for Wikimedia-wide web of trust] to reinforce [[sysop power structure]]

This very bad idea [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-July/015929.html is advocated by] [[Daniel Mayer]], which is enough reason to reject it outright.  Mayer believes in a strict hierarchical civilization based only on technology, where [[technological escalation]] is the source of trust and power, and so-called "[[trolls]]" may be hunted down, and even physically killed, at leisure.  ''Evidence for this is not hard to find - Mayer files [[false police report]]s against those whom he believes have offended him.  Why anyone would want to reveal personal trust data to such person is beyond us.''