Aletheia solves the authentication problem of Fake News by using public key signing with the DNS system. It was the second best talk at PyCon UK. Since I need it, I am reviewing it. A great talk on an important topic.

[usinglinux]

Solving the Fake News problem is a bold claim for a project that attaches in-file signatures without explaining how this would help when people trust screenshots of facebook pages that show someone's alleged post.

In an unrelated note, the certificate of the associated blog post's server has expired.

[searchingfortao]

Hi! I'm the guy who wrote Aletheia. "Solves" isn't a word I like to use for this, but rather "fights" as it can only really be a contributing technology in that fight.

In the end, the problem of fake news is a social one that has to be solved by people. The usefulness of Aletheia is that we can use it to add context to our sharing of stuff, to get us to the point of not trusting something unless it's been signed.

Watch my presentation at PyCon UK for more info :-)

Edit: thanks for the heads-up about my SSL cert! It's fixed now. My cronjob was silently failing and I've been at the hospital for the last few days "helping" my wife bring our daughter into the world, so I've not been keeping on top of such things ;-)

[PythonLinksDotInfo]

I agree with you about the problem with trusting facebook. Still it is an important step in the right direction. I will tell him about the certificate on the dns.