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This is very much in the security training government and military have to take annually as well.
by Wohlf 7y ago
This is very much in the security training government and military have to take annually as well.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’s even in corporate training to prevent revealing trade secrets accidentally.
- sailfast 7y agoIt is, but people are terrible about it anyway. At a minimum, it is a field day for social engineering attacks because you can learn to speak in the languages / abstractions of that specific organization which automatically leads to trust-building.
- Mvhsz 7y agocan confirm that defense people are terrible about spilling a lot of details in public, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard an actual classified piece of info spoken in public
- PenguinCoder 7y agoHow would you know if the information you heard was classified or not ?
- sailfast 7y agoI’d imagine that if you happen to work in the industry, then you would know if what you were hearing was a problem. From what I’ve read, those with clearances that hear something outside of a secure area are obligated to report it immediately.
- teh_infallible 7y agoI once sat at a bar next to a drunk guy who told me he was a Boeing engineer. He proceeded to describe to me how jet engines work, one limitation of common designs, and a way to work around it. I didn’t understand any of it. I got the impression he was very interested in his work and didn’t have people he could discuss this stuff with. He then told me about a limitation with the SR-71 Blackbird (Apparently the panels of the body expand at high speed, so they have to be designed in a way where they have gaps and are leaky on the ground, until they reach sufficient speed.) He said solving this problem would be a big deal. Then he wrote the word, “Aurora” on a napkin and immediately crumpled it.