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Never heard it called that. What I have heard is something along the lines of "confidential but unclassified" which seems more descriptive to me.
by throwaway201103 6y ago
Never heard it called that. What I have heard is something along the lines of "confidential but unclassified" which seems more descriptive to me.
- notretarded 6y agoMetaphorically speaking. I.e. not quite DnD, but likely would want to be contained
- ucha 6y agoThose were the terms we used at an investment bank but I imagine different institutions use different classifications.
- hchz 6y agoThis would never be used by USG. Confidential -> Classified The classification scheme is broadly cut up into Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and Codeword. There are many modifiers to that such as Five-Eyes, Cosmic (NATO), and Restricted-Data (Nuclear Weapon Design). There are a menagerie of controls that don't rise to classification, like NOFORN, Law Enforcement Sensitive, For official use only, etc.
- bradknowles 6y agoCode word compartments cut horizontally across the Confidential/Secret/Top Secret hierarchy. I’ve seen stuff that was classified Confidential, but also in a code word protected compartment. I had a TS/SCI/SI/CT/NATO/ATOMAL clearance when I worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency in the Pentagon. Many times over the past 25+ years I have had to correct people who think the compartmented stuff is classified at a level “above Top Secret”, when in fact the compartments just cut horizontally across the hierarchy. Below Confidential exist other “unclassified” states, like “For Official Use Only” and “No Foreign” (a.k.a., NOFORN). Then, regardless of the classification, you should also have to prove “Need to Know”.
- hchz 6y agoI don't dispute that, I was trying to present a somewhat simplified view of this in a succinct comment. To me, the most interesting aspects of classification were that the title, content, and classification level itself don't necessarily share levels.
- 5555624 6y agoCUI -- Controlled, Unclassified Information (formerly FOUO - For Official Use Only) As others have pointed out, Confidential is classified, the lowest classification level.