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Auditing - be it corporate accounting or election results - breeds false security the moment it doesn't work. I think transparency into critical vetting will be
by ludamad 6y ago
Auditing - be it corporate accounting or election results - breeds false security the moment it doesn't work. I think transparency into critical vetting will be a big societal improvement.
- jacquesm 6y agoI do this for a living and if there is one thing that I have found it is that due to COVID-19 on-site visits are no longer an option (especially not internationally) and this has caused us to be blind to certain classes of problems. It is a lot of work to get around that remotely and to not have a drop in quality because of that. We are at least aware of the problem but even then this is a tricky thing to solve. When looking through a keyhole you can get a completely different view of a company than the one you get when you spend a day on their premises.
- fedreserved 6y agoOn other forums people are taking advantage of the situation to refinance their homes where they don't want a privacy inspection (medical marijuana grows which are legal, but under certain circumstances banks may ask questions)
- ludamad 6y agoBeyond your fair points, my statement is unfair because it's trivially true. "Transparency into critical vetting" hides the complexity of individual comprehension, single points of failure, etc. I just know I have very little trust into opaque processes that randomly blow up