Beyond Crypto Journalism: MySpace, digg And Trust Engines
I've had time to mull over the implications of my previous post on technological solutions to what ails journalism and have come to the conclusion that a solution based on high technology would ultimately fail for the same reason that PGP-based email encryption has failed to catch on in the world at large: it's simply [...]
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Crypto Journalism
The recent spate of fake/unverifiable journalism (see: "Captain Jamil Hussein", the Reuters fauxtography scandal, and the "fake-but-accurate" Bush TANG memos, among others) have gotten me thinking of how we, the average news consumers, can possibly trust the purveyors of information.
As Richard Landes put it in an address to the Herzliya security conference in [...]
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