Is it possible that you actually learned some important private cryptographic key? If so, that number might have been sexy but you just didn’t actually have visibility into a bigger picture?
No, it was more like "this chainsaw cuts through 3 inches of wood per second and it falls apart in half a minute, so the amount of wood you can cut with it is [REDACTED]"
No, it was more like "this chainsaw cuts through 3 inches of wood per second and it falls apart in half a minute, so the amount of wood you can cut with it is [REDACTED]"
That actually sounds like a pretty secure password.
But where would the x or y have ever been written publicly?
a lot of nuclear navy info is decades old and shares the same classification level of new, novel tech. suffice it to say submarines are doing cool things and i certainly dont know the half of it.
Is this serious?
In IT projects, most of us with any kind of clearance NEVER see anything controlled. But the clearance is needed in case we ever need to see controlled information, in order to write code, debug it, operate it, or train others to use the system.
Though some may eventually end up on a system or program whose very existence is classified. And that fact alone, is often not very special, and may be the only thing they ever "know" that's controlled.