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The Age of Technological Transparency
endychavez writes "Executives and politicians may be starting to realize that privacy is dead and secrets can no longer be kept in the information age. There is always a technological trail, and transparency is pervasive. Just ask Patricia Dunn and Mark Foley. In a piece at eWeek, Ed Cone from CIO Insight talks about the specific technologies that brought them down." From the article: "Foley may have thought his IMs were disappearing into the ether as soon as they cleared his computer screen. Instead, the messages were saved, and his career was ruined, and the House leadership is left to fight for survival. We talk a lot a about transparency as a virtue in the age of the web, and hold it up as a marketing technique and a better way to run an enterprise. Sun's blogging CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, is lobbying the SEC to allow more financial information to be disclosed online. Corporations are using all manner of web-techs to speak more directly to stakeholders. But transparency needs to be understood as more than a slogan or a strategy. It's a reality. It can be imposed on you by the Internet, whether you want to be transparent or not."
I'm barely even christian and I know more about that book than most bible-thumpers. You have to understand them; they only care about the parts that tell you what your neighbor is doing that is not permitted in the bible. And the parts that list the punishiments for various crimes and where it says to hate gays and enslave women. They don't seem to remember 'love thy neighbor' or 'judge not, lest ye be judged' or similar passages. They conviently overlook the tolerence passages and any of the redeeming parts of the bible. The part about all of this is that there are so many christians in the US, and when one of these bible-thumping idjits opens his mouth to spew hate, they just sit back and let it go. No outrage, no comment, nothing.
QT