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Comment by loupereira | Hacker News Reader

The claim I am making and standby is that no one can access the webcam and microphone unless they know the password. My question is how does one gain trust and why all the negativity when no one has yet tried or tested the product and debunked my claim?

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I think you're on the right track when you ask people to prove you wrong. If you offer a bug bounty, someone will pentest your product and you'll be quickly debunked. People are so negative because 1. This is HN, they're always negative, and 2. Because your claims are REALLY incredible if true, and you've offered little to no proof outside of "try it and see". If someone said, this computer program lets you go back in time, just try it and see, I wouldn't bother trying it. I'd say prove it.

There's negativity because you're making some pretty incredible claims, and you need to back them up with more than just "well you haven't tested it yet". If you're claiming that you can prevent government actors like the NSA from accessing the webcam and microphone without knowing the password, then you're in possession of some pretty serious crypto and you should be willing to talk about it. Tell people what you've done and why it works, instead of asking them to break it before they judge it.

Well, you can start by not harping on how people here DO NOT TRUST ME. I mean you are repeating the message you don't want people to have. Don't you see how counterproductive that is?

Also, geez, the other thread was 8 hours ago and this one was 3 hours ago. It takes more than 5 hours to "build trust" and establish good relationships with prospective customers.

I don't think anyone can give you the explanation in a nutshell. Building trust takes time and effort and problem solving. Yelling at people or whining at them about "why don't you like me?" or something only adds fuel to the fire.

I trust everyone until they give me a reason not to, that is my philosophy and my fault for assuming everyone else's.

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