Ececticology wrote:
The proposal to watch who's watching which page is the kind of thing that's worthy of an aspiring KGB or CIA agent. The potential for mischief is too high. I want to be on the record as absolutely against it.
Not at all! Secret agents are useful only for information that is /not/ publicly available. If watchlists were public, then all of the CIA agents presently employed in ferreting them out would lose their jobs.
For a real-life example, the USA PATRIOT Act allows the FBI to look at US library records -- but it does /not/ make those records public to everybody! John Ashcroft wouldn't like that hypothetical situation at all; because if terrorists/dissidents knew what was available, then they would take care to make sure that it was harmless.
-- Toby