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posted by n1 on Friday May 26 2017, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the see-what-I-did-there? dept.

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.

The US government has found it increasingly difficult to secure the deluge of digitally-classified information on its systems – from personnel records to hacking tools.

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.”


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @10:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @10:05PM (#516155)

    I'll bet they keep those 3 million illegal voters in Area 51!

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by zocalo on Friday May 26 2017, @10:14PM (1 child)

    by zocalo (302) on Friday May 26 2017, @10:14PM (#516161)
    So, when they say "illegal aliens" they *really* mean it? ;)
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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:10AM (#516294)

      So, when they say "illegal aliens" they *really* mean it? ;)

      There is no need for that derogatory language.

      From now on, please refer to them by their proper term: Undocumented Space Mexicans.