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Agreed; none of the analogies I've seen are really close. I have a couple of attempts: Analogy 1: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed that there w
by gdavisson 5y ago
Agreed; none of the analogies I've seen are really close. I have a couple of attempts:
Analogy 1: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed that there was confidential information printed on the inside of the envelope.
Analogy 2: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed there was a block of intra-office info (document ID, routing codes, etc) at the bottom, and that contained confidential information.
In either case, the critical thing is that the information was sent to him, just in a form/place people don't normally read.
- aidenn0 5y agoI like analogy #1 the best so far. People could be sending each other letters with confidential information on the insides of envelopes (particularly if it's under the part that is glued together) without realizing it, and taking the envelope apart would reveal it. Another (digital) analogy is when departments sent out PDFs with black rectangles drawn over text, and someone just opened it up in a PDF editor and deleted the rectangles.
- version_five 5y agoI think "inside the envelope" is still too obscure. Maybe better (but getting strained) to say the reporter had a secretary who usually opens his mail and only sends him a summary of his correspondence based on keywords he's interested in. But when he opens his own mail one day, he sees it has confidential information included in it, which his secretary has not been forwarding because it doesn't match the keywords. Overall, I agree with the person who said analogies make it more confusing.