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by rowanG077 1726 days ago
No they don't. This is a very dangerous mentality at the root of a lot of evil done throughout the world.
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perl4ever 1726 days ago
If secrets don't imply deception, that that seems to me like saying knowledge is useless.

All truths or falsehoods are within some context and cannot be divorced from context.

What does this have to do with "danger" or "evil"?

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rowanG077 1726 days ago
No it's not. For example almost everyone has curtains. Do you think everyone that closes their curtains is deceiving someone? Of course not. There are many reasons to keep something private, one of them beeing deception. But it's far from the only one.
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perl4ever 1725 days ago
"Of course not" because probably nobody is interested in looking in.

That seems like a trivial point to me, though.

As soon as somebody nosy is interested, then there is a purpose of deception.

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rowanG077 1723 days ago
No it isn't the purpose doesn't change depending on external factors. The purpose is privacy, that is not deception.
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randombits0 1726 days ago
Do you believe the hunt for leakers within Apple should be secret?
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