Information generally gets declassified after 25 years, but there are exceptions for when arbitrarily declassifying things could jeopardize capabilities that are still in use, burn intelligence sources who are still alive, etc.
And now Z (and maybe their entire family) get literally taken out back and shot in the head. Now you not only lose the source of intelligence, you disincentivize anyone else to provide intelligence to you.
Or they find out that it could have only been gathered by obscure technique Q, they take specific countermeasures to mitigate against Q, and there goes millions or billions of dollars of R&D.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-03-19/cia-cover...
(Even this much was the result of decades of sustained political support for disclosure since Oliver Stone’s landmark 1991 film.)
Key takeaway is that if the unaccountable minders thumping national security don’t want something released - ever - it won’t be releases.
Always 'member Trump and his release of a high resolution photograph from a satellite [1]. It took mere hours for people to work out which exact satellite was used to create the photograph and established a lower bound on its imaging capabilities.
[1] https://qz.com/1699833/what-we-can-learn-from-the-spy-satell...
Both SAPs and SCI control systems can be unacknowledged/unpublished, and foreign releasability markings can easily be classified because they show that the country in question has an intelligence relationship with the US that covers a specific topic.
marginalia_nu•4mo ago
[1] https://imgur.com/fpruTB9
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LargoLasskhyfv•4mo ago
j/k. For me that occurs only when I zoom the site on FF under Linux, but not when I leave it at normal scaling, and use the 3 letters on the upper right side to change the font size instead.
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sunrunner•4mo ago
> Time to read it.
Nice knowing you.
ManualEntry•4mo ago
Apparently it is illegal in the UK to do that and I'd guess it is illegal in most countries. https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/sending-triggering-images-o...
edit: Didn't find a case, but it is illegal in the UK at least.
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LargoLasskhyfv•4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_the_Nation%3F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live !
Now playing Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses at Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kE8565_xrc
(Corey Hart 1983 cover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglasses_at_Night )
sunscream89•4mo ago
Gateway II is disappointing and the hidden plot line is that these experiences are curated by superior handlers and these are the accounts as ordinary man would interpret them.
Btw, were you being satirical? They won.
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twic•4mo ago
EDIT Oh, it does look busted in Chrome, though. But you can just not use Chrome.
Xiol32•4mo ago
Haven't got to the bottom of it yet. I set Victor Mono as my Monospace font in Chrome and that has fixed it for things like the HN comment box, for instance, but Github and such still all look weird.
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