Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator
gr4, ah, but we know they know, but do they know we know they know?
A bit like ESM parameters. They know what their parameters are but do they know we know?
That's
exactly the fog one hopes still gets generated. During an 'interesting' posting I was connected with <redacted> and the one thing that made it so <classification> was that we didn't want "Them" to know what we knew, and how we knew it, if indeed we did (or didn't, or couldn't on Thursdays).
In consequence, even the <codeword> had a codeword, and the name of, or codeword for, <redacted> was never used either in writing or in conversation, and even my desk diary was a registered <classification> document.
So, when I first heard <it> mentioned in the Media, I nearly !!!!! myself!!
Capabilities (and deficiencies) are as precious for National security as hardware details and/or Op plans.
[/pompous old bloke]