Unfortunately, this story mostly just shows how confused our society has become.
Trump challenges Obama to voluntarily reveal his academic record.
OK. Trump can do that. It's up to Obama if he wants to reveal those records.
The school that Trump went to gets several calls from people claiming to be Trump's friends, asking the school to turn over Trump's records, so that they can 'keep them safe'.
Who the hell believes that? You don't have to be very bright to strongly suspect that those calls were made by journalists who were taking a stab a getting the school to hand over Trump's academic records. You don't have to be very bright to know that the school would be liable if they did turn over those records. And you don't have to be very bright to realize that the school's administrators would have to take steps to keep an employee from digging up Trump's records and leaking them.
So you don't have to be very bright to realize that if you were the school's administrator, you would also take steps to secure Trump's academic records.
Do you think that Obama's records wouldn't be secured if people started calling his school, claiming to be friends of Obama who want Obama's academic records so that they can keep them safe? For all I know, Obama's academic records were locked away in a very secure location a long time ago.
Trying to get people to release information that they have no right to release by using some plausible sounding pretext is the oldest trick in the book. I am pretty alarmed by how sleaziness is becoming so normal to people. We can't trust employees any more. A few years ago, academic records were completely safe under casual security. You could just tell employees that those records were confidential and not release them to people, and you could trust employees to abide by that. But now everyone thinks that being a sleazy employee is normal, and that it's acceptable for some low level employee with access to confidential information to abuse their employer's trust and leak the information.
This is all a pretty fake story. Trump's records being tightly secured isn't real news. The bigger story is how sad it is that we can no longer trust low level employees with routine security of confidential records anymore.
Trump challenges Obama to voluntarily reveal his academic record.
OK. Trump can do that. It's up to Obama if he wants to reveal those records.
The school that Trump went to gets several calls from people claiming to be Trump's friends, asking the school to turn over Trump's records, so that they can 'keep them safe'.
Who the hell believes that? You don't have to be very bright to strongly suspect that those calls were made by journalists who were taking a stab a getting the school to hand over Trump's academic records. You don't have to be very bright to know that the school would be liable if they did turn over those records. And you don't have to be very bright to realize that the school's administrators would have to take steps to keep an employee from digging up Trump's records and leaking them.
So you don't have to be very bright to realize that if you were the school's administrator, you would also take steps to secure Trump's academic records.
Do you think that Obama's records wouldn't be secured if people started calling his school, claiming to be friends of Obama who want Obama's academic records so that they can keep them safe? For all I know, Obama's academic records were locked away in a very secure location a long time ago.
Trying to get people to release information that they have no right to release by using some plausible sounding pretext is the oldest trick in the book. I am pretty alarmed by how sleaziness is becoming so normal to people. We can't trust employees any more. A few years ago, academic records were completely safe under casual security. You could just tell employees that those records were confidential and not release them to people, and you could trust employees to abide by that. But now everyone thinks that being a sleazy employee is normal, and that it's acceptable for some low level employee with access to confidential information to abuse their employer's trust and leak the information.
This is all a pretty fake story. Trump's records being tightly secured isn't real news. The bigger story is how sad it is that we can no longer trust low level employees with routine security of confidential records anymore.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
