Wikileaks not so scary, because transparency is--with some restrictions--a good thing for the SysAdmin

WAPO front-page analysis from Greg Jaffe and Peter Finn that does not surprise me:  the Wikileaks trove of raw reports isn’t having any political impact in DC because it’s not having any political impact in the US.  Frankly, it’s another reason why I don’t fear the guerrilla organization:  I don’t believe that more transparency will truly change the public’s perception, so why not play the whole thing on this more transparent plane?

So unprecedented scale and scope, but we haven’t been lied to, and the US military isn’t deluding themselves, and SysAdmin stuff really is nasty and hard—just as much as war in the more traditional forms.  Our adversaries are bastards, and our allies are weak and two-faced . . .

Hey, stop me when I tell you something new.

The only way the Leviathan can live in his world of secrets nowadays is because wars have gotten so fiercely short that they come and go before the transparency can be achieved.  By definition, the SysAdmin’s load is long, horizontal scenario within which pervasive secrecy is impossible, and counterproductive, and . . .

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[louis Heberlein]

Leviathan community used information management for thousands of years, but almost always from a narrow political-military perspective. The SysAdmin folks understood the broader implications that information resources had for achieving cultural transformation/evolution of problem communities. However, they did not have the outreach to broader domestic and international public to help them understand and participate. Academics studied big project situations like the efforts of US and West to help transform postwar German and Japan public and establishments into positive participants, but only Tom and a few academic and media types discussed the process from a broader and constant process for Core countries and the enlightened in Gap territories. I hope there insights don't get kept in the boxes of Afghanistan, Iraq etc.