[atlarge-discuss] Is This The Party To Whom I Am Speaking...

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

   ...with apologies to Lily Tomlin

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Micheal Sherrill wrote:

> One can (change) any picture onto a passport and insert text to reflect
> whatever...one wants... Third-party verification is paramount to real
> identities from a distance. Sotiris Sotiropoulos suggested thawte.com...
> I am sure there are more.  But, we need to follow that path.

Graphic, text, hexadecimal, any binary data can be altered. So what can be
done?

Looking at what other organizations, albeit not-virtual, are doing in the
way of third-party verification, it usually comes down to personal
knowledge - and at the membership level.

Usually, one would not be nominated and second unless one has been around
and working with the organization for a while - in other words, one is
"known" to the membership/committee in question.

We seem so bent on being able to say we elected 11, why?

And why, when a call for nomination is made, we find folks with whom our
previous contact has been non-existant, "filling out" the list...

As we continue to be in a start-up-phase, perhaps we should consider a
smaller group of individuals with whom we have previously "worked."

After all...

 "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know."
   - English Proverb

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