there's been much discussion of the trust system, they were talking about completely changing it at one point....but there's no real way to decentralize it. 

you want to go right to theymos but you haven't even tried what I said:  go to the next person above lauda in the trust chain, and get them to remove lauda from the default trust list.  that will make your red mark go away.

you are basically asking theymos to intervene and make an exception for you, which is probably not going to happen, I can tell you that already.