Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/13/2013 08:14 PM:
What kind group would contain an instance of such a cabal?
Perhaps a decent example might be ALEC <http://www.alec.org/> or, perhaps, funders of the Cato Institute or Heritage Foundation. The point is that they may well lobby/advocate for absolute transparency _and_ integration of tools, perhaps actively working against unifying standards (because unification is antithetic to individualism). These people would argue for absolute transparency and would have the resources to maintain large corporate machinery/bureaucracy to keep track of and manipulate the ecology of tools. Any asymmetrically weaker entity would, in principle, be able to dig into any aspect of the system. But such an entity would be incapable of grokking the whole system, at least as well as the army of lawyers, accountants, auditors, programmers, etc. who worked on behalf of the cabal. And even if an entity like the EFF or ACLU _could_ compete on understanding the system, they could not compete in the public outreach (advertising during the super bowl, lobbying for net neutrality, etc.). -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella Shadow of the New Praetorian
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