Online impersonation recently criminalized in California. Already illegal in Texas Some accounts like BPGlobalPR are obviously spoofs Bronwyn Bishop MP was impersonated and people believed it
Twitter’s “beta” verification program is “closed to the public” “ explore algorithmic-based verification”
Matt Harris said so at DevNest over Skype Not a priority to come up with a new system
Twitter ordered to hand over Wikileaks supporter details Facebook asking for mobile phone numbers and credit cards Google now storing mobile phone numbers for gmail verification
Twitter as a CA
This is how Certificate Authorities work
Gossamer Spider Web of Trust See CACert.org Thawte Shuts Down Free Email Certificates - Sept 2009 - due to “security compliance requirements“
In the PGP model trust is relative to the observer