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That's not always true. A lot of the time, things are marked as classified because they were tangentially related to something else that was classified. It's ju
by shitlord 11y ago
That's not always true. A lot of the time, things are marked as classified because they were tangentially related to something else that was classified. It's just easier to do things that way, and people who work for the government really prefer to do things the easy way. I knew a guy who interned at the NSA and he said that really inane stuff (like the internal numbering systems they used to organize stuff) is considered classified as TS.
- wtbob 11y agoI have no idea if any internal numbering schemes are classified, but it's not a crazy idea. A numbering system can indicate capabilities (imagine seeing that index 314-15.9 is 'questions to ask Hitler's brain') and how an organisation thinks about things. But yes, over-classification is possible. Fortunately, there are processes to handle that.