Armok_GoB comments on Details of lab-made bird flu won’t be revealed [link]

Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 19:33 UTC
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That is only true for certain types of secrets.

Scandals: 80% Technologies: 30% Passwords: <1%
- wedrifid 25 Dec 2011 19:40 UTC
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  Scandals: 80%
  
  “Someone did something scandalous but I don’t know what!”.
  
  (How do I cash in this knowledge for status?)
  - Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 19:56 UTC
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    I don’t know how to do that given every detail about the event.
    - wedrifid 25 Dec 2011 19:59 UTC
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      I don’t know how to do that given every detail about the event.
      
      Really? Pick one:
      
      Gossip.
      Publish (ie. sell to tabloid.)
      Blackmail.
      Undermine rival.
      - Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 21:56 UTC
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        Honestly? I have no idea. the word “scandal” was just the first that popped up in my brain for “That kind of social-ish secret like in HP:MoR”.