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I am curious, why do you think that transparency is the future? I can't think of a significant reason why that would happen. The only people that think this way are the ones that would benefit from it, and for the regular user, there is not much good. I can see alot of downsides though, like many here have mentioned, out-of-context interpretation.

Possibly the only people benefitting from this are companies, especially those with good CRM systems. And don't jump to the idea that being anonymous is no good either. Imagine sites would begin to ask for your identification before you were allowed access to content or features, like commenting systems. Imagine you are a kid again and were trying to access hacking information that were behind a over-18 wall, or just trying to post a comment on HN, but you have to be either a hacker or an entrepreneur to do so...

Also, transparency will never stop hackers or crackers from doing what they do, neither it will stop terrorists, piracy or <insert-your-digital-threat-here>. Hopefully, transparency will fail.




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