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Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation
VValdo writes "As you may recall, the citizens of the US shelled out about $85 billion to bail out AIG and its creditors (Goldman Sachs in particular) last year. But as 80% owners of AIG, we still don't know what happened, exactly. That may change. In a new op-ed piece, former prosecutors (including former NY governor Eliot Spitzer) are calling for the US Treasury to force AIG to release its treasure-trove of emails to the public before allowing AIG to 'break free' of our control. As the prosecutors put it, 'By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of "open source" investigation. Once the documents are available for everyone to inspect, a thousand journalistic flowers can bloom, as reporters, victims and angry citizens have a chance to piece together the story.' Good idea?"
Most comic book superheroes are vigilantes. They work outside the law to bring evildoers to justice. When drawn like Adonii and Venii, with skin-tight spandex costumes and long flowing capes, their actions are well understood to be for the common good.
Contrast this with vigilantes in real life. When people act outside the law to bring down "evildoers" we call them terrorists, murderers, and Menaces to society. We simply can't tolerate vigilantism in a civilized society. Justice must operate within the confines of the law, and that implies that the accused must have some level of privacy.
To open the case up to the general public means forcing any shred of privacy of every employee of AIG out into the open. It also means that anyone with an agenda can use the material to find ways to destroy those employees. It encourages vigilantism and erodes the rights of everyone for no good reason.
and by the upper class that knows best, you should be referring to the elite politicians that bailed out the private industry. private industry and free markets should never be bailed out by the government. refocus your indignation and hatred for those you have erroneously placed above yourself to those that are causing the problems to begin with.
when you take my money without my permission and justify it as the greater good, that IS socialism. and socialism is not Constitutional. either change the Constitution by the rules or stop stealing my money to make yourself feel better.
This is a really, really bad idea.
For an example of why you have to look no further that the so called 'ClimateGate' scandal. Here you had a bunch of people 'cherry picking' phrases and code segments then using them completely out of context to cause a major up roar. Which because of its simplicity of presentation was able to draw in the masses of the uninformed public, media included, who took what was presented to them at face value simply because they wanted to believe.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo