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A thing that exists only until exactly one person decides it shouldn't.
means A piece of information deliberately kept hidden from others, known only to one person or a chosen few.
from From Latin secretus, 'set apart, hidden,' the past participle of secernere — literally 'to separate' (se-, 'apart,' plus cernere, 'to sift, to divide'). The same sifting verb gives us 'discern' and 'discreet.' So a secret is, at root, something sifted out and set aside from common knowledge, reaching English through Old French secret.
- thermodynamics
- Spreads faster the more you guard it
- physical toll
- Keeping them measurably raises stress and blood pressure
- oldest record
- Cryptographic ciphers date back 4,000 years to Egypt
- the catch
- Two can keep one if one is dead
- confession urge
- Brains reward us for finally telling
enigma machine — nazi encryption device used in wwii, broken by bletchley park cryptographers in 1940
manhattan project — us atomic bomb development program 1942-1945, kept secret from congress and the soviet union until hiroshima
area 51 — us military facility in nevada where classified aircraft like the u-2 spy plane were tested starting 1955
watergate tapes — richard nixon's secretly recorded oval office conversations revealed his involvement in the 1972 scandal