Re: Recovery of compromised WebID

Quoting Sebastian Hellmann (2019-03-05 09:18:37)
> On 04.03.19 11:26, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > If you agree with my priorities above, then you would_not_ want your 
> > WebID hosted at my server - you would want to self-host!
> 
> You seem like a decent and trustworthy person. Let's have a 
> pinky-promise ceremony, that you don't exploit me. Actually, we could 
> work together. I will recommend everybody from DBpedia to host your 
> WebID on your server, when we have a couple of thousand users that 
> place their trust in us (Dr. Jones and Dr. Hellmann) and build their 
> infrastructure around those WebIDs, we will scam them hard and flee to 
> a country that doesn't extradite with the money.
> 
> I think, we could get the complete range of their accounts plus their 
> solid pod: https://xkcd.com/792/

I genuinely have difficulty recognizing when you are joking and when 
not.  Above seems like purely a joke, but I worry if I have wasted my 
time on other parts of our ocnversation if that was also just a joke.

Yes, you can trick others.  You can trick me into looking like a fool.  
You can trick tired tourists at train stations into revealing personal 
data about themselves, which you can then use in a more elaborate scam 
involving identity theft.

Unsurprisingly, many things you can do "in meat space" you can similarly 
do online.  And you may argue that it is more convenient, dangerous, 
efficient, whatever to do it online - depending on choice of measure.

For the record, I have no interest in or fascination for that trade.

I do have an interest in and fascination for securing online services. 
Reasonably - i.e. weighing risks, not blowing them out of proportion.


 - Jonas

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