That's the same question as lies in whether or not to disclose security bugs to everybody, only to the producers, or not at all. Different situations have different answers (I like how this paper shows when the different approaches work), but I think the transparency would make it at least as easy for the "many eyes" to discover problems as for those who would exploit the bugs in the incentive system.
Or at least I hope so :)
(Even if not, it may still be worth doing the trade to get the agility that automation can provide - while one can run programs on any computer, one can't make a copy of all the bureaucrats of a department and experiment with changes in laws.)
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:36 pm (UTC)Or at least I hope so :)
(Even if not, it may still be worth doing the trade to get the agility that automation can provide - while one can run programs on any computer, one can't make a copy of all the bureaucrats of a department and experiment with changes in laws.)