That revealing past secrets will somehow make governments more transparent - they'll use encryption and off-record remarks, watch what they say, ensure records are destroyed, tighten security protocols. But IMO, and it is just that, they will still keep the same secrets and have the same covert conversations and exchange the same messages.
Assanges point is that the harder you make it to be secretive the less conspiracies you will get (he uses a somewhat different definition of conspiracies)
It's not by any metrics naive it's exactly what is going on right now. Overreactions decreasing the ability to communicate. That's what Assange by his own words are after.
>Assanges point is that the harder you make it to be secretive the less conspiracies you will get
If someone wants to whisper something in your friends ear, and seeing it you step closer, does the third party whisperer quit or do they usher you friend away so that they can keep the secret?
Making it harder to keep secrets means that people are more secretive.
Decreasing the ability for people to communicate is not at all a good thing IMO. If diplomats can't do their job, acting as intermediaries and smoothing over relationships between countries then I don't think that is going to help anyone unless they desire anarchy.
>It's not by any metrics naive it's exactly what is going on right now.
Could you expand on this I'm not at all clear what you're saying.
That revealing past secrets will somehow make governments more transparent - they'll use encryption and off-record remarks, watch what they say, ensure records are destroyed, tighten security protocols. But IMO, and it is just that, they will still keep the same secrets and have the same covert conversations and exchange the same messages.