# kaal:claim:3266953-005

**Claim.** Today's internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures on an underlying authoritative trust model, and that traditional hierarchical trust model carries many inefficiencies including serious cyber security vulnerabilities.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Worse yet, today's internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures and with an underlying authoritative trust model. Many inefficiencies are associated with the traditional hierarchical trust model including serious cyber security vulnerabilities.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Trust Crises on the Internet, page 7

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Failure mode.** authoritative trust model vulnerability  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** reputation, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** hierarchical-trust, cyber-security, internet-architecture, trust-model

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-034

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