I think it’s likely that insider information is a shortcut to aggregating information from public sources. Ie, you can go to a bunch of effort to find all the public information about what a company is doing or planning to do and get a pretty good answer, but someone working in that company is likely to have that knowledge sorted and organized and known already, simply by virtue of wanting to know it for their job.
Yes. A tremendous amount of what is classified is classified not because no one else can learn these facts or these facts are not out there in an unclassified form somewhere, but rather because it would be highly meaningful if it was known that the CIA or the NSA or Seal Team 6 or whomever was currently batting these particular facts around,.
After all, all unclassified information is ultimately generated or gathered from not intrinsically classified sources.
I think it’s likely that insider information is a shortcut to aggregating information from public sources. Ie, you can go to a bunch of effort to find all the public information about what a company is doing or planning to do and get a pretty good answer, but someone working in that company is likely to have that knowledge sorted and organized and known already, simply by virtue of wanting to know it for their job.
Yes. A tremendous amount of what is classified is classified not because no one else can learn these facts or these facts are not out there in an unclassified form somewhere, but rather because it would be highly meaningful if it was known that the CIA or the NSA or Seal Team 6 or whomever was currently batting these particular facts around,.
After all, all unclassified information is ultimately generated or gathered from not intrinsically classified sources.