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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev
From:       Peter Stuge <peter () stuge ! se>
Date:       2012-07-29 1:01:23
Message-ID: 20120729010123.20560.qmail () stuge ! se
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Duncan wrote:
> the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow 
> thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of
> that organization on the line if they don't.

I think it's unreasonable to expect any third party to accept
responsibility for a receiver which is over-trusting a sender.

Receivers must be intelligent and diligent to not be fooled by
ignorant or outright malicious senders.

See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

Society chose to make radio senders responsible by law. It's why
there are jingles. As with any free speech medium, that is not so
easy to enforce on the internet.

Just like you don't want to over-trust the guy on the corner dressed
up as a person of authority trying to disseminate whatever racist
propaganda you don't want to believe everything on the internet.

More than anything, please consider that what you have been told may
simply be a lie, and be prepared to rewind and re-evaluate the world
if you learn that this is the case. You may look like a fool for
believing someone who was telling a lie, but you'll look like a hero
for admitting that it happened and that you've learned something new.


//Peter

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