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If you are worried about leakers, you probably are doing somehing "bad" and you are aware of it. Why would anybody even consider giving such tips to `people wh
by Ziomislaw 13y ago
If you are worried about leakers, you probably are doing somehing "bad" and you are aware of it.
Why would anybody even consider giving such tips to `people which can be summed up as evil' is beyond me.
- ig1 13y agoPretty much every company has confidential information. When a company administrator sells the internal address book to a recruiter or when a salesperson makes a copy of the prospects database before joining a competitor - that's leaking too.
- JulianMorrison 13y agoIt would be interesting to consider a world that is truly without secrets, even of obscurity. It's possible we might get there. I think the way companies and so forth do their work could end up being adjusted to cope.
- jacquesm 13y ago'The dead past'. Isaac Asimov, 1956.
- jloughry 13y agoI just read that. Thanks for pointing it out. The parallels to the present day are striking and disturbing.
- stefs 13y agoi recommend stephen baxter and arthur c. clarkes "the light of other days". as far as i remember it focusses more on the social than the economical impact of absolute transparency, but i still strongly recommend this excellent book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
- chad_oliver 13y agoConsider sports teams. They have strategies and plans which they don't want leaked to their opponents. You'd be hard pressed to call them evil.
- Ziomislaw 13y agoyes you are right, I have unconsiuosly narrowed my thinking here (considered only Prism related situations).