In-reply-to » Another thing: At the moment, anyone could claim that some feed contained a certain message which was then removed again by just creating the hash over the fake message in said feed and invented timestamp themselves. Nobody can ever verify that this was never the case in the first place and completely made up. So, our twt hashes have to be taken with a grain of salt.

@prologic@twtxt.net Just what @bender@twtxt.net did. :-D If he’d additionally serve the fake message from his yarnd twt endpoint, everybody querying that hash from him (or any other yarnd that synced it in the meantime) would believe, that I didn’t like Australians.

In fact, I really don’t. I love’em! 8-)

We would need to sign each message in a feed, so others could verify that this was actually part of that feed and not made up. But then we end up in the crypto debate for identities again, which I’m not a big fan of. :-)

I just want to highlight, one might get a false sense of message authenticity, if one just briefly looks at the hashes.

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