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You'd be surprised what gets classified. For example aggregate maintenance data from aircraft, like the paperwork for changing tires, or repainting the fuselag
by nvy 4y ago
You'd be surprised what gets classified. For example aggregate maintenance data from aircraft, like the paperwork for changing tires, or repainting the fuselage on a C-130, can allow an adversary to develop pretty good estimates of a military's readiness capability. So it's classified, usually as Secret.
The USAF alone has something like 100,000 aircraft maintainers, all of whom have a need to access that data to varying degrees.
- barrkel 4y agoThey Need To Know. NTK is a contextual requirement and shouldn't be solved by admitting them into an enormous pen whereby they instantly gain access to information that they don't, in fact, need to know.
- nvy 4y ago>admitting them into an enormous pen whereby they instantly gain access to information that they don't, in fact, need to know. In my firsthand experience, having been a military officer with a security clearance, this rarely if ever happens. My point about the aircraft maintainers is that it's fairly common and in fact rather mundane that "thousands" of people do actually have a need to know.