Towards Trustworthy Systems: In the Near Future Every Piece of Code Will Be Signed By Its Creator

So who owns code? Who created it? How trustworthy is the code creator?

We have grown up with a world where we signing our code using comments like this:

/***************************/
/* Bill's Network Code 1.0 */
/* Created 19 Jan 2019     */
/***************************/

But what credibility does that have?

Does it have any legal standing?

Why can’t we properly sign code with our sovereign identities, and prove that we are the author of code, or in signing our updates on code?

With code increasingly building our world, we thus need to make sure we understand who are the creators of code, and whether they are trustworthy. In a blockchain world, developers will then have sovereign identities and be able to sign their code updates on whichever system they use.

At present, GitHub is taking over our digital world, especially in its integration into cloud-based systems. Microsoft knows this, and bought GitHub for $7.9 billion. And so, within a few years, it is likely virtually everything in our Cloud will run through GitHub, and it will scale into virtually every part of our organisational infrastructures. This will drive scalability…