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		phkahler on Aug 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal >> This is why the WoT is a bust and nobody developing new crypto systems cares about it anymore. I think the real reason nobody cares about it is because it gives you actual privacy. There is no way to exploit it commercially. All they could get is that data went "from here to there" with no idea what was in it. Not even Google could target ads with that.

schoen on Aug 28, 2014 [–]

I've met plenty of non-profit privacy activists who share Mike's pessimism about web of trust authentication.

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