Perhaps anyone who thinks anything will remain secret by convention is a fucking moron. It takes one person one minute to make something like this public foreve

Perhaps anyone who thinks anything will remain secret by convention is a fucking moron. It takes one person one minute to make something like this public forever. It takes the cooperation of thousands of people over thousands of weeks to keep it a secret. When we're dealing with something like... the password to launch a nuclear missile, it's reasonable to expect it to remain a secret (then again, thousands of people (hopefully) don't have access to things like that). With public domain information that thousands of people have access to, well... you'd be a fucking moron to think it could stay secret for long. Perhaps tangential, but this is why security through obscurity is not enough. Sure, you can roll your own cryptography and no one will be able to break it... for a while. Eventually though, the secret of how it works will leak and then you're done. It's much better to focus on making something that will work despite being public. I don't know if that idea CAN be applied to psychology. I don't know much about it. But I suspect some effort to make tests which can work even when public will be necessary in the future... assuming Rorschach's test ever worked.