On 9 December 2010 10:11, Anthony Cartmell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Assange's stance is that more open and just societies are built on fewer >> secrets held by those who govern those societies. He believes that by >> helping people leak information, those who govern are weakened into a >> position of HAVING to be more open and transparent. > > These secretive organisations CAN remain secretive, but they start to lose > trust their internal communications, and each other, and this also seriously > weakening. > > He doesn't need to leak very much to sow seeds of doubt, in the same way > that a terrorist organisation doesn't need to plant very many real bombs: > the threat is what actually does the job.
The tactic is exactly analogous to those employed by various terrorist organisations: create security threats which provoke the authorities to crack down, thereby undermining their legitimacy and ultimately causing them to be unseated. The problem with this theory is the law of unintended consequences, in my view. Seb _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
