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Knowing the source means you can check if it is a "qualified" source. This is part of contracting and may or may not be something used to assert the truthfulness of content. It can mean the qualified authority authorized the transaction. It can be used as a way of qualifying a set of transactions, checking for security permissions, etc. In general, it is useful. It does not assert the veracity of content. GIGO is true for any transaction. I don't trust Bush out of the box either, but given an executive order, I'd feel better about following it. That's the way the system works. len -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote: > Perhaps you are confusing the notion of being certain (or do I mean > confident?) of the origin of a page with the notion of trusting the > content. But knowing the origin of the page is useful in deciding whether to trust the content: if (know_origin) { if (trust_origin) // personal decision, not machine decision trust = true; else trust = false; } else trust = false; > It illustrates the more general point that knowing the origin of > content is of limited value in knowing whether the content can be > trusted or not. Really? I always consider the source of information when trying to decide if I believe that information. Of course, as a general rule, anything on the Web gets a high untrustworthiness rating simply because it is on the Web...
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