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https://www.justsecurity.org/24823/half-life-secrets/
The nature of secrets is changing. The "half-life of secrets" is declining sharply for many intelligence activities as secrets that in the past may have been kept successfully for 25 years or more, are now exposed well before.
For evidence, one need look no further than the 2015 breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), of personnel records for 22 million U.S. government employees and family members. OPM is just one instance in a long string of high-profile breaches, where hackers have gained access to personal information, trade secrets, or classified government material. The focus of the discussion needs to be on complementary trends in information technology, including the continuing effects of Moore's Law, the sociology of the information technology community, and changed sources and methods for signals intelligence, all of which increase the likelihood that government secrets will not remain secret for long.
An age where secrets become known sooner, means that "the front-page" test will become far more important to decision-makers. Even if a secret operation is initially successful, the expected costs of disclosure become higher as the average time to disclosure decreases.
Are we on the verge of David Brin's Earth, where transparency is total and secrets are a dirty word?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Saturday July 25 2015, @12:42AM
Hack into the paper files about the JFK assassination and tell me what really happened.
Oswald. Lone shooter, no one else involved: yes we'll stick with that til our shoes fall off.
Then not alone, because we're forced to admit it, but the only hit was Oswalds, because, i guess, the other guys had worse guns and were worse shooters than Oswald.
Oh yeah, lets take out Oswald before he can talk.
Nothing to see here: move along.
Pffffft.
I want THOSE files, Mulder, dog dammit!!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday July 25 2015, @03:49AM
It was The Cigarette Smoking Man. He killed MLK, too. I have a [source]. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:25AM
He only ran for president because his father wanted him to. His father wanted JFK to run because his older brother gave his life during World War II.
A while back the secret service disclosed that he spent the night of his inauguration with someone other than Jackie or Marilyn. I expect that was the woman he really wanted to marry.
Or perhaps he spent that night with a man.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @03:54PM
JFK killed himself. With the help of a time machine.
JFK ended up starting WWIII so when a secret skunkworks program developed a time machine he took personal responsibility, went back to 1963 and assassinated himself in order to prevent global thermonuclear war.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:57AM
The 1st shot wasn't the best shot.
No one has subsequently demonstrated that level of rapidfire marksmanship on the first try with that weapon type.
Oswald was a terrible shot. [google.com]
He chose an oblique position where trees obstructed his line of vision|fire.
(Clearly, there was a shooter high in the Dallas Textiles Building which is perfectly aligned with Elm Street.) [google.com]
Arlen Specter's magic bullet supposedly caused SEVEN wounds and ended up looking like it just came out of the box.
Dave Powers was in the car behind JFK's and saw a muzzle flash from the Grassy Knoll.
Commission member Gerald Ford kept interrupting his testimony.
The Warren Commission report is bad fiction.
-- gewg_