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Whether they had the information or not, giving them a plausible excuse to know that information is still a security breach. There are countless examples in the
by caskance 11y ago
Whether they had the information or not, giving them a plausible excuse to know that information is still a security breach. There are countless examples in the past where one party had secret information they were forced not to act on for fear of revealing to enemies that they did in fact know it.
- dllthomas 11y agoIt is a breach, but only a severe one if there were things (of import) for which another plausible excuse could not have been trivially constructed. And again, this is an issue because individuals cannot credibly be secure, which is quite specifically something the NSA has worked to ensure.