Building Trustworthy Institutions
summary
Argument: modern institutions suffer a crisis of trust so the remedy is concrete practices not slogans. The plan centers on transparency (open source code, public product decision logs, but confidential search deals remain a weakness), participation (public development, bug bounties that find real flaws), and tying risk, reward and responsibility (lesson: mortgage crisis showed reward separated from risk). Work includes Firefox OS as an open device stack and net neutrality policy engagement; NSA spends about $50 million a year buying vulnerabilities, which undermines overall security.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Trust by design vs traits
- 3:12Four pillars of trustworthy institutions
- 6:25Transparency vs confidentiality
- 8:54Security, participation, and NSA
- 12:06Democracy, surveillance, accountability
- 14:18Mozilla’s societal role
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