The Forbidden City, or prestige through secrecy
What better example than the Forbidden City of Beijing (or Peking) to symbolize the culture of secrecy in order to guarantee prestige and authority? Construction of the Forbidden City began …
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Quotes on the Secret
Presented in chronological order, these quotes are resources and avenues to explore in order to understand the concept of secrecy. Quotes on the Secret of the Ancient Era ” The …
Definitions of Secrecy
There are three types of secrets in society: state secrets secrets of being (professional secret, secret of the confession) secrets of assets (economic secrets, manufacturing secrets) But there is also …
Facial recognition
This experiment conducted by the New York Times is quite revealing about the power of surveillance cameras. From public data (photos published on the companies’ websites), and using facial recognition …
Secret and digital: Quantum computing and encryption
A Moore’s law (popularized as such but not really related to Moore’s observations) says that every 18 months a breakthrough occurs in technologies. For example, that a characteristic is twice …
The secret at the heart of the Khashoggi affair
Secrecy, the theme of the joint competition, is at the heart of the sad Khashoggi affair. Secrecy around his presumed death, secrecy around the location of his presumed body, secrecy …
