Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she’d revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and–after it was founded–to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite; she and the Children were trapped on a world of medieval strangers.. So at the beginning Ravna had kept some secrets. It was now years too late to reveal this one. In the Beyond, “cameras” were more than what early tech civilizations imagined. Cameras could be a coat of paint, or critters that looked like insects, or even a bacterial infection. Delivery of the information to the observer could be even stranger, a diffuse cloud of perturbations–acoustic, visual, thermal–that took enormous processing to reconstruct. Vernor Vinge
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When you are in a situation where you want to make sure that people don't feel like they are getting ripped off by their own government you need to be careful about what information you share. You need to make sure that you don't reveal any information that would make the other side think that the government is taking advantage of them. If you do, then they will always be suspicious.

Source: A Fire Upon The Deep

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