Isn't this analogous to buying property insurance on your neighbor's home and then posting instructions for breaking into it on the Internet? Or shorting a bank stock and then posting instructions for electronically stealing millions from it? I'm not sure this is a good thing.
Potentially, it's a slippery slope from making it easy for others to attack a company, to encouraging others to attack the company, to actually attacking the company... to benefit financially from a fall in the company's stock price.
At the extreme, this reminds me of the character Le Chifre in the Bond movie "Casino Royale," who at one point purchases put options on an airplane manufacturer and simultaneously hires a terrorist to destruct the company's new prototype airliner to profit from the declining stock price.[1]
Under the presupposition that fictionally inflated prices in your 401k are a good thing.
More accurate prices of equities are better for the health of the market. The financial motivation should be the incentive to avoid delaying the inevitable.
Potentially, it's a slippery slope from making it easy for others to attack a company, to encouraging others to attack the company, to actually attacking the company... to benefit financially from a fall in the company's stock price.
At the extreme, this reminds me of the character Le Chifre in the Bond movie "Casino Royale," who at one point purchases put options on an airplane manufacturer and simultaneously hires a terrorist to destruct the company's new prototype airliner to profit from the declining stock price.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chiffre#2006_film_biography