There is a scale of secret-keeping beyond which it is easier to slow the diffusion by adding noise to leaks rather than trying to contain it
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This is the FUD point of a secret. D-Day involved FUD-defense of adding noise of Calais as landing location to keep Normandy less plausible
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When the energy/financial signature of a secret is too big to be hidden, you have to start "hiding" it in a sea of half-plausible accounts
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Ironically, at this stage, conspiracy theorists are part of the *mechanism* of keeping secrets, not people who reveal them
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Cryptography is just the nerdy-sexy tip of iceberg of sociology of secrecy. Steganography and conspiracy noise-mixing are higher-order arts
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Secrets don't leak when they hit NYT. That's the commoditization. They leak with first unauthorized knower exploiting it for unintended gain
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Okay, final thought in this on-the-DL tweetstorm: all mathematics is a conspiracy theory about the universe.
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