I think it’s actually quite hard to have everyone in an organization trust everyone else in an organization, or to only hire people who would be trusted by everyone in the organization. So you might want to have some sort of tiered system, where (perhaps) the researchers all trust each other, but only trust the engineers they work with, and don’t trust any of the ops staff, and this lets you only need one researcher to trust an engineer to hire them.
[On net I think the balance is probably still in favor of “internal transparency, gated primarily by time and interests instead of security clearance”, but it’s less obvious than it originally seems.]
I think it’s actually quite hard to have everyone in an organization trust everyone else in an organization, or to only hire people who would be trusted by everyone in the organization. So you might want to have some sort of tiered system, where (perhaps) the researchers all trust each other, but only trust the engineers they work with, and don’t trust any of the ops staff, and this lets you only need one researcher to trust an engineer to hire them.
[On net I think the balance is probably still in favor of “internal transparency, gated primarily by time and interests instead of security clearance”, but it’s less obvious than it originally seems.]