I don't know if there is a technological solution to the trust issue, really. But if we could provide a fix, it would likely be profound in its impact.
Martti/Sirius is working on
identifi, and will be utilizing this in some ways, to give some measures of trust between persona's and identities, coupled with public key signing of resources to who ownership. What falls out the back is a graph of reputation+trust, WoRT (not such a nice name!), it is not a perfect solution, but perhaps provides enough data to be useful in accountability solutions, and certainly enough to be managing reputation and perhaps small measures of trust. The notion of micro-trust is important, to say we trust a service with some disposable amount of income, but not our full life savings.
Friends at ORA, if you feel this is becoming noise, and would be better on a different thread for mutual discussion, please speak up
