Trust

Full Title or Meme

Trust, simply put, is just the projection into the future of past behavior.

Context

There are two ways to approach the problem of trust in computers systems.

Computer Engineering

The scientific approach

When this approach does not work the computer scientist always try to blame the users and propose educating the users. This approach never winds up meeting the goals.

Social Engineering

The social approach to trust is exploited by con men attacking our human weaknesses every day. Creating trustworthy computer systems can not be overcome this sort of attack. One good example

Only a good user experience

Promlems

The Psychological Problem

The philosopher Karl Popper defined the psychological problem as