Welcome to the See-Through Era
Really? Because I think I can read some of it.
Photographer: Ian Waldie/Getty ImagesWe live an age without secrets, or at least without safe secrets. If your reputation is based on people not finding out who you really are or what you really did, or whether you were a victim of a crime, you may be in trouble. Think of grand juries, the Central Intelligence Agency, Sony’s hacked computer system, Bill Cosby or the credibility of Rolling Stone magazine.
That may not be bad news: The more people believe their secrets will eventually come out, the better. Consider grand juries: They can keep secrets for a period, but video recorders don’t. We still don’t know how the panel that weighed the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, voted, but we know how it was manipulated. And when the feds are done investigating, we’ll know even more.