Re:Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security R...
by jarek on Friday June 14, 2013 @10:23PM
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Incidentally, this would be a great advance on Zuckerberg's professed goal of making the world a more open place. Safer or better would be arguable - more open would not be.
Re:Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security R...
by jlgreco on Friday June 14, 2013 @10:34PM
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Oh, don't get me wrong, we certainly should not start with Facebook.
Going after Facebook would probably be unnecessary after we were through with the accused government organizations. At that point Facebook's innocence would either be clear, or it would be clear that Facebook was a victim in this. If we found reason to believe both of these were not true, then we could pursue them as well.
Strap these organizations down and cut them the fuck open with no regard for their wellbeing. If the procedure kills them, then so be it.
There is a threshold past which live dissection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Recovery_of_the_Stasi_fi...) is the only way that trust can be restored. I assert we have run across that threshold. And before anyone whines about it; no, we are not as bad as the Stasi yet. The Stasi do not represent the position of the threshold, they were miles past it.