Cost of Secrecy Continues to Increase

xerid writes "The Associated Press is running an article about the increasing costs of government secrecy. The information stems from a report (PDF Warning) posted at OpenTheGovernment.org. From the article: 'The government is withholding more information than ever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups reported Saturday. That's a $28 jump from 2003 when $120 was spent to keep secrets for every $1 spent revealing them.'"

Comments

No Surprise

[RAMMS EIN]

With so many of the government services running on Windows, it comes as no surprise that the cost of keeping secrets secret is ever increasing.

for now on

[FudRucker]

i am only supporting OpenSource/GPLed governments...

It's not $128:$1

[AFairlyNormalPerson]

Don't let the figures fool you.

The real figure is $3:$1.

The other $123 went towards buying the hammers and wrenches that they claim to spend $500 for - which they don't - those $500 aren't spent on the hammers and wrenches - it is actually used towards funding the stuff that they are trying to keep secret in the first place.
It shouldn't be much of a secret though that the secret is this crazy scheme of keeping secrets.

Got it?