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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by joyeuse6701 on Saturday April 06, 2013 @01:53PM (#5504351)
The problem with transparency is that there are those who would exploit it. We could all have our passwords publicly available (that would be an interesting experiment), but I'll guess that you wouldn't be willing to post yours here. So I could understand the french gov't not willing to divulge this information at the moment either.

If history has been any lesson, conflict will come, regardless of whether you want it or not.

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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by Evbn on Saturday April 06, 2013 @02:44PM (#5504564)
History also teaches that secrecy is a tool of the powerful state forces to oppress and kill the weak civilians.
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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by zaphar on Saturday April 06, 2013 @03:14PM (#5504663)
History also teaches that secrecy is a tool of those who would like to rebel against powerful state forces that wish to find and kill them.
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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by dsfasfasf on Saturday April 06, 2013 @02:51PM (#5504593)
>>We could all have our passwords publicly available (that would be an interesting experiment), but I'll guess that you wouldn't be willing to post yours here.

Come off it. Hyperbole much? Why don't you take it even a bit further and in the name of transparency have everybody walk around nude so that you know, we can see that you are not carrying any weapons.

You know the comment you replied to did not talk about transparency to this extreme.

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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by salvadors on Sunday April 07, 2013 @05:47AM (#5506653)
It did talk of "obligation for a completely transparent government" (emphasis mine).
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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by thwest on Sunday April 07, 2013 @03:48PM (#5508438)
Maximally might have been a better word choice, or just dropping the adjective. Absolutism never survives scrutiny⸮
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