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I'd be very surprised if any government could survive without holding secrets. Lets take something innocuous--medical records. Surely you'd have to keep those secret. And surely a foreign power would want to access those secrets as well, for blackmail if nothing else.

But even if a government tried holding no secrets, it would be at an information disadvantage compared to more secretive rivals. For instance, most people are unsatisfied with the notion of abandoning their own privacy (which is a personal form of holding secrets) as a defense against government invasions of privacy, yet this is the same solution you propose that governments attempt against rival governments.



Lets take something innocuous--medical records.

Those are secrets of people, not of nations.

But even if a government tried holding no secrets, it would be at an information disadvantage compared to more secretive rivals. For instance, most people are unsatisfied with the notion of abandoning their own privacy (which is a personal form of holding secrets) as a defense against government invasions of privacy, yet this is the same solution you propose that governments attempt against rival governments.

There is a huge difference between organizations and people, I never proposed such a thing when it comes to people vs. nations.


> Those are secrets of people, not of nations.

Yes, now please bother to read the next two sentences of my original post and then think about it, because I'm not in the mood to repeat myself.


Why should governments even have medical records of its citizens?


I dunno, military hospitals? Public hospitals? Medicare?




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