Trust, Transparency, and Ports

Bruce Schneier, writing for Wired, hits the nail on the head: But when it comes to government, trust is based on transparency. The more our government is based on secrecy, the more we are forced to "just trust" it and the less we actually trust it.

Comments

[Charlie]

Senator Daniel Moynihan argued in "Secrecy; The American Experience" (following his work as chairman on the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy)
for more openness to public critique; "it is possible to conceive that a competing culture of openness might develop and that it could assert and demonstrate greater efficiency… Analysis far more than secrecy is the key to security.”

[John Robb]

He was entirely correct.