-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-05-09 02:12 PM: > Similarly, we should come up with a suite of measures for openness. > Obama's execution of bin Laden, interviews on 60 minutes, and keeping > the pictures secret is a good example. We should pick measures that > evaluate Obama's disclosure as "closed" and some as "open".
I just had the thought that FOIA responses might be one measure of openness: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a788007182 http://www.flickr.com/photos/xepera/5705434466/in/photostream I'm sure others could be derived from places like the OECD: http://www.oecd.org/ Of course, if we wanted to capture the co-evolution of obfuscation for individual _privacy_ in response to intrusive devices like credit card databases or traffic cameras, we'd have to examine something like the rates of "spoofed" registration/login data or light scattering license plate covers in relation to the rates of usage for the intrusive tech. I'm sure the EFF and white hacker sites could help there: http://www.eff.org/ - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFNyIIWpVJZMHoGoM8RAnAQAJ4kvCaonjSqVhZzCeYl3golIzvu4QCfUGuS 7G/T4g/rojm0aqxDGAMoz4E= =Qt9H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
