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So a revelation isn't the revealing of a secret to people who don't know the secret? (or to put it another way: revealing a secret to a population where the va
by nodata 13y ago
So a revelation isn't the revealing of a secret to people who don't know the secret?
(or to put it another way: revealing a secret to a population where the vast majority do not know it)
Snowden revealed the scale of the operation too, and the depth of the rabbit hole.
- nilved 13y agoNot if that information is already publicly and easily accessible to that group. If I was to post a link to an existing but obscure Wikipedia article on Hacker News, it would be as much of a "revelation" as Snowden's "revelations."