Tackling the Future of Digital Trust—While It Still Exists

An interesting look into the future.
 
By Tekla S. Perry
Posted 26 Feb 2016                                                        http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/DigitalIDiStockphoto34979134-1456431502835.jpg Last week, some 50 cybersecurity experts and observers took on a unique challenge: imagining a future in which bad things have happened in the digital world, and figuring out how to recover from them. The event, designed to help form solutions to problems before they happen, rather than in a panicked reaction afterwards, was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation and run by the Rand Corp. and the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.
 
In the second of two workshops (I wrote about the first workshop, on IoT security, here), the participants, split into groups of eight or so, tackled the idea of digital trust. Among the important questions were: When digital trust is broadly compromised, how do we rebuild it? and How do people identify themselves in the meantime?
 
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