On 23 July 2010 13:53, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Still, making any attempt to be secretive about where the office was (which even included deleting pictures from Commons that showed what the building looked like) was a really silly thing for an organization based around free exchange of information to do, and was rightly ridiculed by critics such as the WR crowd.
The Foundation, like any other employer, has a duty (both legal and moral) to protect its staff. The nature of the Foundation's work means there is a significant risk of it coming under various forms of attack, including people turning up at the office and behaving in a threatening manner. Keeping the location of the office quiet was the best way the Foundation had to mitigate that risk. The new office comes with security, so the risk is significantly reduced, hence the address being published.