Good Article on PKI Trust Models

A Good document on PKI Trust Model from SANS Reading Room

LINK:
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/vpns/pki-trust-models-trust-36112

This headline confuses me - Smarter People Are More Trusting

We always learn something new everyday and sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

According to the article:- 

Both vocabulary and question comprehension were positively correlated with generalized trust. Those with the highest vocab scores were 34 percent more likely to trust others than those with the lowest scores, and someone who had a good perceived understanding of the survey questions was 11 percent more likely to trust others than someone with a perceived poor understanding. The correlation stayed strong even when researchers controlled for socio-economic class.

(Here is the silver line)

The researchers posit that intelligent people might be better at correctly evaluating whether people are trustworthy, or whether a particular person is likely to act untrustworthily in a particular situation.

The links below has more information:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/study-smarter-people-are-more-trusting/284520/

Interesting article on the term Security and its relation to Trust

SNIPPET from the Article:-

“Security” is almost always in reference to assumptions about trust.  There are many forms of trust that may apply.  Trust may be formed between people, between systems, between organizations, or any combination thereof.  There are "good" assumptions (more secure) and "poor" assumptions (less secure) about trust.  Therefore whenever we are making something more secure, what we usually mean by this is that we are trading one or more poor assumptions about trust for better assumptions about trust. 

The links below has more information:

http://blog.secureideas.com/2014/03/decoding-security-jargon.html