If you want to understand the UK Gov’t institutional mindset around data protection: a 40yo “top secret” document is found in the national archives, and the finder is all of a flutter…

Yes I know about VENONA, yes I understand compartmented & codeword information protection, yes I know some of it could be current, I don’t care, to get there it has gone through official process, it’s likely been in the national archives for 10+ years already, that horse has already bolted, it should not be for amateur sleuths to gainsay the wisdom of the government releasing documents under its own processes and/or to protect it from itself.

https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1966110131617411561

https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1966180590945972369

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