4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
9:43 a.m.
And my last questions relate to who, what and where,
these questions can be answered of list, if you
do not wish to shout it out here in an open forum :-) I understand that much if not most
of what we
could not talk about in the 60's is public knowledge but that does not keep one from
thinking twice even
today.
Most all technology from the 1960s is declassified to some point, if
not entirely. Even a lot of the crypto systems have been declassified
enough that something better than vague details are free. Not enough
that you can get a tech manual or detailed specs, but enough that
people can talk about general operation and such.
Even SAGE was declassified quite quickly, probably on the standard
declassification shedule at the time (every seven years, I think).
Was the project/machine top secret in the official sense - at the
official Top Secret level? Or was it something else? There is a big
difference. Most people do not know the meaning of Top Secret (and it
does have an official definition), and use it freely, when other
classifications are more proper, like Secret, Classified, or
Restricted.
Back in the Cold War, nearly every developement project was Secret or
Top Secret, by the way. Even some really dumb ones.
--
Will