I’m glad you’re confused! You will find the next few posts helpful. But as a teaser: I absolutely hate it when people outright say something like “only N people can hold a secret at the same time”. Most people have all worked in offices where, for example, one person had a crush on another person and literally everybody in the office knew except that person. Or for another example, in an office where everybody but the floor manager knew that the work they were doing was pointless. It’s the circumstances that determine the half life of private information. There’s no “upper limit” to the amount of people that can “hold a secret” “in general”—the question is always, which people, from who, what information are they hiding, and for how long do they need to keep it under wraps?
I’m glad you’re confused! You will find the next few posts helpful. But as a teaser: I absolutely hate it when people outright say something like “only N people can hold a secret at the same time”. Most people have all worked in offices where, for example, one person had a crush on another person and literally everybody in the office knew except that person. Or for another example, in an office where everybody but the floor manager knew that the work they were doing was pointless. It’s the circumstances that determine the half life of private information. There’s no “upper limit” to the amount of people that can “hold a secret” “in general”—the question is always, which people, from who, what information are they hiding, and for how long do they need to keep it under wraps?