Information Classification Quotes

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.

We live in the most wide open society the world has ever known….We need to have fewer secrets and a rational classification policy.

Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that.

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.