Agreed but I think it&#x27;s also OK to take a fundamental position that all secrecy is bad. If you want to shift the status quo, you need to take an extreme standpoint. Today&#x27;s status quo in Western governments is a long long way from being the happy medium you&#x27;re describing.<p>Case in point would be Stallman - whether you agree or not with his ideals or the GPG you can&#x27;t deny that his impact on software as a whole has been tremendous and positive. It&#x27;s reasonable to argue that github would not exist were it not for RMS and his fundamental position that all software should be Open Source