<story><title>Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search</title><url>https://assassinationfiles.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkostempski</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been done on the books, classified or not.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking it&amp;#x27;d be all over the news by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>Black Op: If you heard even a hint of it, it ain’t black.  Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar.  Does Stratfor do black ops? You’ll never know.&lt;p&gt;From &amp;quot;Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wikileaks.org&amp;#x2F;IMG&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wikileaks.org&amp;#x2F;IMG&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Usefu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search</title><url>https://assassinationfiles.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkostempski</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been done on the books, classified or not.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking it&amp;#x27;d be all over the news by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>People leave a lot of accidental breadcrumbs.&lt;p&gt;Consider that even what people believe to be carefully anonymized data sets can be reverse-engineered down to a scarily specific group of people, if not all the way down to the specific person individually. [0] [1]&lt;p&gt;Aside from the fact that some people have a conveniently weak definition of &amp;quot;anonymous&amp;quot;, this is part of why it&amp;#x27;s worrisome to have so many people collecting and reselling browsing data and other types of user analytics, despite their repeated assertions of anonymity.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s perfectly plausible to believe that with the right shuffle of declassified data, substantial new information will become apparent.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~shmat&amp;#x2F;netflix-faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~shmat&amp;#x2F;netflix-faq.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;De-anonymization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;De-anonymization&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>