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I know plenty of people with top secret clearance. Each knows very few secrets. (Or at least, so I assume. I don't know what they know, it's a secret.) Even I
by hugh3 16y ago
I know plenty of people with top secret clearance. Each knows very few secrets. (Or at least, so I assume. I don't know what they know, it's a secret.)
Even I used to have a lower-grade US government security clearance, and I'm a dirty foreigner.
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- sophacles 16y agoHuge swaths of security stuff relate to opsec. This is stuff like passwords, troop movement plans, who is being wiretapped and so on. Even more of it tho is stuff like "how much food is being put on supply ship x, or how many tons of fuel are needed to top off the tanks at X motor pool". Essentially all information that can be combined in such a way that bad guys can infer dangerous knowledge -- side-channel attacks essentially. There are also other secrets, which may be more dangerous, such as blueprints for a new weapon or whatnot. These have a longer "shelf-life". One of the best ways to keep secrets like this safe is to DOS enemy analysts and have lots of opsec stuff be classified as well. One thing tho that I consider most unfortunate is that classified is essentially a viral license. Once something is built on classified knowledge, not matter how useful it is classified, even if it could be arrived at independently.