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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
Leaking confidential information can put some people and even the actual government in a vulnerable position. As far as I'm concerened, there are some things the government should absolutely keep confidential, and as citizens we should accept that.
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I think this is very well said - and I'd say it's even self-evident, although others would disagree with me.
However, up to this point, I haven't seen anything that would actually rise to the level of putting people or the US as a whole in danger. Whether the "poison pill" does that or not obviously remains to be seen, but as of now, most of the information seems like stuff that it would be
convenient to have secret, and not anything that would
be required to prevent injury or etc. For me, convenience isn't good enough - and might actually be a hindrance to overall safety.
For example - the lists of key locations, entities, etc.? I mean, obviously we don't want major communications hubs or underwater pipelines being destroyed by terrorists, but if our best efforts to keep those areas safe were "hope the enemy doesn't know/figure out the importance!" then the areas were never truly safe to begin with.
In that way, and somewhat in accordance with Kevin and what I discussed before, this might actually be a good thing, in a perverse way.
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