Leaking Secrets Under Social Pressure

| | classified, leaks, military, security
Here is a classic example of human nature: people on a gaming site argue that the site’s tanks don’t accurately reflect their capabilities. Participants post classified information to prove their point. Reporters ...

SCI//HCS-P/SI/TK at Mar-a-Lago

This is a brief explanation of the weird acronyms on the cover sheets that appeared in the photo of classified the FBI seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. They identify different types of ...

The Mar-a-Lago Mess

I’ve avoided commenting on the FBI’s discovery of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago Club, the home of former President Donald Trump, before this. Numerous pundits have shared their opinions about Trump’s legal ...
Telepathic Declassification

Telepathic Declassification

| | classified, security, Trump
Former President Trump recently suggested that the sitting President simply needs to “think” something is declassified in order to declassify it. Is there a cascade of increasingly formal ways to declassify? Perhaps: ...
Update: Tweeting Top Secret

Update: Tweeting Top Secret

| | classified, security, Top Secret, Trump
Back in the dark ages of the Trump presidency, the President tweeted this photograph. An earlier post examines the legality of this act (100% legal), and speculates about the potential damage to ...
“Eyes Only” Security Marking

“Eyes Only” Security Marking

| | classified, security
Occasionally in the news (and more often in spy fiction) people toss around super-secret documents marked “Eyes Only.” The United Kingdom and Canada use “Eyes Only” to indicate specific countries with whom ...

This photo should not exist

pin.it/fnnc4j6fjamugy Once we get past the creep factor of Nazi army uniforms, we see a communications team sending a secret message. They are using the legendary Enigma machine to encrypt the message ...