Michael Hayden, former chief of NSA, recently said that the young people should give up on their "romanticized" idea of transparency (for the government). That's some irony for you, considering his NSA is the one that started going after "total information awareness", by collecting everything on everyone, and trying to kill privacy and anonymity worldwide.<p>Why isn't his idea "romanticized", too? Also, if anything, it's the governments that should have total transparency, not the citizens. They are the public people working on the interest of the public, and the public should be able to verify that what they're doing is in its interest. Instead, we see the opposite. They're trying to make every person an open book to them, while they're increasingly denying FOIA requests, to the point where even the police does it (NYPD especially).<p>That's not how it's supposed to work. Maybe Hayden and the others that think like him, should give up on the idea of "romanticized" tyranny, that they want to establish.
If you hack corporations you can very defintly "get a gun pointed at you". There are laws against hacking, even hacking corporations, and you can be convicted. You can also be sued.