On Feb 26, 2010, at 7:30 PM, MFPA wrote: > On Friday 26 February 2010 at 10:12:29 PM, you wrote: > > >> The nefarious UID signature is not uncommon. There are many >> "presid...@whitehouse.gov" keys (and other famous figures) that have >> signed well-known keys. It's just easily-ignored noise, though, and >> has no impact on the web of trust. > > > No impact on the web of trust. But your online presence (and possibly > that of somebody else with the same name) can feed into decisions > about employing you or doing business with you, often/usually made by > people who don't actually understand the information they find.
There isn't much you can do about that, really. Forget keyservers for a moment - some random person can post the same sort of fake "relationship" information on their blog, and it would show up with a Google search for your name. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
