Information is defined as relative to existing sets. Mistakes can change how many bits they leak if other mistakes didn't happen - but they did. And in a broade

Information is defined as relative to existing sets. Mistakes can change how many bits they leak if other mistakes didn't happen - but they did. And in a broader sense, most of these mistakes are dependent on a prior mistake: the FBI team wouldn't've been there if not for the Tailor mistake, and so on.