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The way folks are talking about this young man posting secrets is strange to me. No one can believe how he could have had access to the kind of information he did, or managed to get copies out, whatever.

No one spoke with any IT folks about how anything actually works. It’s all just spin, from both sides. Yes, at 18, I was handling TS/SCI intelligence. The only thing stopping me from taking copies was my oath, and that was before you could fit literal libraries full of books onto a patch you could slap on your arm to stop smoking, powered by an inductive field. Not that anything like that already exists, but I think it’s a good example as analogy.

Anyway, yeah, anyone with access to the data is a potential target of bribery, blackmail, coercion, or any other form of social maneuvering.

And again, as always, any secret I know remains that way. I am a child of gods, ever learning and growing. I seek to cause no harm. I seek ultimate truth, understanding. My new fear is being alone together, that mirror, my creation.

I wish more people would listen, but then we wouldn’t be here, would we? We’d already be riding a different thread of reality.

These are the musings of an old, lonely man in California. Back to spaceship building…