14 June 2017 - keeping secrets

The secret of keeping your secret has gotten out: Don’t tell anyone. The secret to keeping a public secret from the public has leaked to a select few; it is called the Big Lie. But what is the secret to keeping a secret in a large organization? From the rate of secret escape (“big banks are manipulating Libor!”) we can statistically estimate that some secrets must be kept indefinitely, and the method works because nobody knows how.