The transparency grenade (funny ...and serious)

From Fast.co: this really made me think while having a good laugh at the same time;

"Transparency Grenade: A Weapon For Leaking Information from Private MeetingsLots of shady things goes on in meetings behind closed doors. To combat that, try throwing this incendiary listening device, designed to bring secrets into the light. For the artist and engineer Julian Oliver, all the recent talk about transparency in government hasn’t amounted to much. “Many feel more in the dark than ever before; subjects, rather than partners, of their government and its agendas,” he says.

To help correct--or at least draw attention to--what he sees as a worrying increase in corporate and governmental opacity, Oliver designed a new kind of weapon: TheTransparency Grenade, a one-of-a-kind gadget that makes “leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin...."

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