I don't really disagree with the principle, but it seems to more or less be a statement of the idea of "whistleblowing". Snowden is a high-profile current examp

I don't really disagree with the principle, but it seems to more or less be a statement of the idea of "whistleblowing". Snowden is a high-profile current example of a whistleblower, but it might be going a bit too far to credit him with the principle itself! An example (in a different domain) of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy