[trustable-software] Who can we Trust for Software:

Domenico Andreoli domenico.andreoli at linux.com
Fri Sep 16 12:34:31 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 09:43:35AM +0100, trustable at panic.fluff.org wrote:
> 
> I think this is a very valuable discussion and very much feel there is a piece
> missing from the discussion. That is the Chain of Custody for the decisions. We
> are already seeing this raised in the Dieselgate discussion
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/vw_engineer_state_witness_in_dieselgate/
> 
> and in the BCBS-239 discussion of Risk Data
> 
> http://www.marklogic.com/blog/bcbs-239/
> 
> The need to be able to know who performs actions and how that person got the
> permissions to do those actions.
> 
> This Chain of Custody of the rights to perform things is as important as the
> ablity for the forensics of the data delivered.
> 
> I don't have as yet an answer to this problem, but feel it is part of the
> discussion in this arena.

Block chains (ie bitcoin, ethereum) might be of help here. It's whole
new universe though.

Regards,
Domenico

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