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Fascinating content, but interrupted six separate times by a "Type your email... Subscribe" text box. I wonder what the conversion rate is on that fifth box; wh
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
Fascinating content, but interrupted six separate times by a "Type your email... Subscribe" text box. I wonder what the conversion rate is on that fifth box; who misses it the first four times and then decides to sign up?
Back on topic, I do hope that some of this is simply being withheld and is not truly lost to history, but it does make one wonder: At what point will the digital information inside secretive state agencies like the CIA be analyzed by, say, 3rd-millenium historians, in the same way that we analyze cave paintings? I enjoy reading through some of the declassified Apollo mission engineering documents, but I would be shocked if a future government was willing to release such shameful material even decades after it was no longer of strategic importance and the individuals involved were all deceased.
- germinalphrase 5y agoI have heard (though I can’t remember the source) that at a certain point on the secrecy ladder, digital files are viewed as intrinsically insecure so documents are only created and handled as hard copies. Obviously, I have no idea if this is actually true.
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- the_af 5y agoI googled Gina Haspel, mentioned as a CIA person who destroyed records of torture, and her Wikipedia page mentions she "does not use social media". I bet she doesn't, and for good reason!