ChristianKl comments on Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions - Less Wrong

65 Post author: PhilGoetz 27 December 2010 05:16PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 31 December 2010 04:27:08PM -1 points [-]

With Wikileaks we might soon live in a world where the information that spies gather get read by more people than a small, closed audience. Does that mean that those spies stop being spies?

Comment author: NihilCredo 01 January 2011 06:46:36PM 2 points [-]

If I send a secret report to my boss, and Mr. Smith manages to read it and publishes it on the Times, the journalist is Mr. Smith, not me,

Comment author: wnoise 31 December 2010 07:43:58PM 1 point [-]

It's still not intended to be broadcast beyond that closed audience. Most information of that nature becomes far less useful when your opponent knows that you know.