# kaal:claim:3808859-034

**Claim.** People increasingly substitute trust in machines, algorithms, and code for trust in organizations and procedures, but that reliance may be misplaced because the existing internet was designed for hierarchical societal structures on an authoritative hierarchical trust model carrying serious cyber security vulnerabilities.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Peoples' increasing reliance on digitized, coded, and automated replacements of traditional cohesion mechanisms may be misplaced. The existing internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures and with an underlying authoritative and hierarchical trust model.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), V.3 From IoT to Decentralized Web (Web 3.0), page 42

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Failure mode.** misplaced trust in a hierarchical architecture  (family: recentralization-drift)

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

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

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-005

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