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If millions of people know something, can it really be considered a secret anymore? That’s one of the questions at the heart of an ongoing debate in Washington about how much, and which, documents to classify in the age of Wikileaks, iPhones, and Edward Snowden.
That challenge, underscored by Mr. Snowden’s leaks of details exposing the National Security Agency’s top-secret surveillance programs, has given transparency experts new hope that they can help intelligence agencies take advantage of new thinking around classification to ensure that what needs to be secret stays secret.
“The calculation has changed recently, because a single individual, either out of negligence or malice or some other motive, can disclose whole libraries of records,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. “That’s something the government has not yet figured out how to deter or prevent.”
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 26 2017, @09:52PM (1 child)
That has been found to be rubbish by most security experts. It's not if you think it's alright or if the written law says you have been a good citizen. But if the largest power in the country identifies an opportunity to gain something from your misfortune. And this will be done regardless of any law in practice.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday May 26 2017, @11:22PM
"whoosh" ....
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory