Instapundit: Don't Fear the Leaker!
Great, must-read paper by Glenn Reynolds about creating a culture of "ethical whistleblowing."
Snippet:
Leaks are inevitable. So, it seems, is a government too large and complex to be overseen properly by either the President or Congress. Rather than trying to overcome either of these problems by main force, perhaps it makes sense to address one of these phenomena via the other. While top-down oversight will never be sufficient to do the job, empowering the "little people" of government to blow the whistle on illegalities is likely to limit the worst excesses.
Previously from Instapundit on same theme.
One of the footnotes mentions Reason's interview with former NSA employer William Binney, a.k.a. "Edward Snowden 1.0." Check out the transcript here and watch the vid below:
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If you love the Instapundit so much, Nick, you should go ahead and marry him.
LB, Reynolds is already married, apparently happily. Nick will therefore have to wait until the courts require states to recognize polygamous--or in this case, polyandrous--marriage.
This could be any day now.
Then I suppose you wouldn't mind if I leaked everyone's social media credentials. Snowden leaked the government's Facebook password and now everyone can see those embarrassing pictures and Farmville scores.
"In this brief Essay, I argue that rather than trying to eliminate leaks entirely, which experience demonstrates is impossible, we should instead try to channel leaks so that they provide the maximum benefit to transparency...."
I hope I live long enough to see the US government tolerate any transparency, let alone foster it.
Reynolds is an optimist, so his stuff cheers me up a bit.
Sounds like someone knows what the plan is wow.
http://www.Crypt-Tools.tk
Firewall Alert. Apparently my work IP address is blocked.