Sure, I do contracting work for the military.
There are hundreds of millions of secrets kept every day with hundreds of thousands of people keeping their mouths shut.
Leaking is exceedingly rare.
You have not provided any evidence or examples, just a “trust me”, which is essentially worthless. Also, there is a difference between a secret and a conspiracy. Secrets can survive for a long time, whereas history suggests that conspiracies rarely, if ever, succeed long term.
Well, you know that the military has a lot of secret stuff you know nothing about right? Let’s use Area 51 as an example.
Leaks like Snowden or Manning are a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount of secrets that were not leaked.
As far as examples of successfully kept secrets, I can’t give those, because I’m in on it.
All a conspiracy is, is a group of people keeping a secret.
As far as conspiracies not being successful long term, history tells us no such thing. Conspiracies with tons of people are successfully kept every single day, only to be discovered decades later when something is declassified for example.
You can never prove if a conspiracy to keep a secret is not successful if you never knew it existed.
Oh absolutely.
My point was strictly the assumption that many people can’t keep secrets.
Depending on ideology, reprisals, or personal ethics (good and bad), secrets can be kept by a startlingly large group of people.
I’ve seen estimates as high as 10% of the population of east Germany were spying on their neighbors.
I agree. Humans like sharing things, even if they shouldn't. We're bad at keeping secrets. I was just making the point that your claim of leaks in the military isn't necessarily comparable to a leak about a company. You do have a point about the large numbers of service members - that would raise the chances of something happening.
They are indeed different. But if they were compromised, it doesn't mean that all employees there know. It would probably be a handful of engineers only. Maybe one day one of them will make a blog post with all the details, however, there are more incentives to keep their mouths shut than otherwise. If they come publicly about this, they will get a lot of unwanted exposure (which most people don't like), they will certainly lose their jobs, they will have to talk about that in every job interview they do, they will likely get sued due to NDA breaches, etc which will actually prevent them from being hireable in many places (specially security firms). So, it's much easier for these people, if they morally object this, to just quit, find another job and move on. They'll likely tell their friends and family not to use lastpass, but that will only travel so far.