I was at an event recently where they said “everything’s confidential.” Huh? Your CEO just said what your revenues were last quarter–you know, the stuff that’s public by law, reported to the SEC, broadcast everywhere. Oh…well you can say that, but everything else is confidential! Sigh.

This isn’t some odd duck–it’s the event equivalent of those slide decks that have CONFIDENTIAL on every page, regardless of how sensitive the information really is. Lazy. And controlling.