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We write things down for a number of reasons. Are you really arguing that a person "is asking for it" just for writing it down?

• bambax 13y ago
  I'm only saying, what's not written can't be read. What isn't said can't be heard. My mother was a lawyer and always taught us never to talk over the phone about things that were potentially incriminating, much less writing it down -- and this was in the seventies-eighties, long before anything resembling the Internet or the mass-surveillance capabilities of today's NSA. What I'm saying is that a real secret is something not shared with anyone; if you need to share a "secret" with another person: - you need to take extreme precautions, such as not talking about it on the phone, not writing about it, not alluding to it when in presence of other people - you can only talk about it in person, not over any kind of wire, regardless of what you think are good encryption methods - and even if you do all of the above it's very likely the secret won't stay secret forever I'd say this is all common sense.
• TeMPOraL 13y ago
  It's a practical thing. If you write a secret down, then there's another instance of it in the world; an instance that might (and most likely will) be mishandled or otherwise discovered by third party, accidentally or not. So if there's any instance of the secret outside of your head, it's better to treat it as 'public but not yet discovered by people', and adjust your OPSEC accordingly.