On 28 Aug., 20:03, leif <[email protected]> wrote:
> [X] hijacked
>
> On 28 Aug., 18:44, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:22 AM, rjf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > While it is, in some ethical universe, a plus to announce/share bugs,
> > > it is, as a
> > > practical matter, much less useful than one might initially believe.
>
> > Wow, you sound a lot like the Mathematica documentation! "You
> > should realize at the outset that while knowing about the internals of
> > Mathematica may be of intellectual interest, it is usually much less
> > important in practice than you might at first suppose."
>
> ROFL. I'd say *both* statements carry some truth; as always, depending
> on the specific context.
>
> Also, transparency (or FOI, extending to freedom of speech in some
> cases) is a general dilemma, with almost the same pros and cons in
> politics, economics, customer information etc.
"[...] Transparency cannot exist without control. [...] This is based
on the premise that states and corporations have the right to privacy
as much as individuals do and that secrecy is required for efficient
management [...].
In addition, transparency can be misused on several levels – by
providing unprofessional or poor-quality interpretation of information
or documents, by conducting superficial or biased analysis, by lack of
experience on the topic or by pursuing a political agenda. Thus, not
everything carried out under the “transparency label” is necessarily
good for the government and its people. Moreover, the very ideal of
transparency can also force public figures to become more secretive.
The Information Age and its transparent nature [...] also increases
pressure on decision makers, who have to identify, assess, and react
to information, which is immediately and widely accessible to other
[...] organizations, as well as the public. This is an unnecessary
and possibly dangerous pressure [...]." [1]
SCNR,
-leif
[1] Document # 074 CDS 11 E: "Information and National Security", II.
C.: "The Information Age and the Notion of Secrecy in International
Relations: Transparency vs. Secrecy"; Draft General Report by Lord
Jopling (United Kingdom), General Rapporteur; NATO Parliamentary
Assembly, 2011
http://www.nato-pa.int/default.asp?SHORTCUT=2443
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