People trust. And people abuse that trust. We experience both sides all the time.

Tonight, I read through a thread on Twitter and saw folks asking @th3j35t3r lots of questions about CoSo and about his identity and his back-up plans for CoSo should something adversely happen to him (which could be more of a possibility were he to out himself).

And I get it. Sort of. But here is my take, for what it is worth.

By the millions people have signed up for FB, Twitter, IG, even Google Chrome...

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They have signed up without reading all the fine print and when it was later disclosed numerous times that each of these sights not only access contact lists, they follow their cookies.. hell, they follow their friends' cookies too! And still, people continue to use those sites and still sign up anew.

And we see the faces of those companies, the unethical standards, the favoritism, the duplicity is what they say in front of Congress and what they actually do.

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Now.. I have only seen J's face the one or two times he posted it. But I wouldn't be able to pick him out if I saw him getting a fish sandwich or sitting at a table at Starbucks. But I bet there would be some who could easily identify him and carry out threats.

AND STILL.. I trust him more than any of the other owners previously mentioned.

Why? Gut instinct? Maybe.

But also, his dedication to this site, his palpable and present interest in his creation, his willingness to listen to ideas.
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