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intrasighttoday at 12:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

People don't get hacked - devices get hacked. So all we need is a better chain of trust between two people. This is not a technology development problem as much as a technology implementation problem. And a political problem


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bigfishrunningtoday at 12:44 PM

People get hacked -- a device could be flawless, but if a person is a victim of "Social Engineering" and hands the attacker a password, there's nothing the designer of the device could do about it.

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proxtoday at 1:41 PM

Best thing I think of is domain names. Domains are tied to addresses and billing, and sites are people or businesses, with physical locations one can visit.

Maybe a good startup idea would be “local verify” , where you check locally for a client if the online destination is real.