If you didn't know, you're been hell-banned for months. That's why so few people reply to your comments.
But anyway, keeping something secret doesn't mean it didn't happen. And it's now public knowledge for anyone who cares to look outside the history of the US.
You have to have a certain level of karma to be able to see shadow-banned people. Otherwise... yeah not knowing about it is kind of the point, isn't it?
Of course I'm banned on HN - I'm not a leftist, right dang?
Very unfair. As somebody who has regularly commented here against the excesses of the left, while sometimes the silent downvoting has often been telling as to the sympathies of some, the moderation has always been scrupulously fair.
> Well, Britain decided to hide everything behind the Official Secrets Act, which workers proudly maintained.
Fun fact: GCHQ still refuses to talk about some of the earliest computing work on Colossus and enigma decryption. I was quite surprised to hear this when I was on a tour of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park[0].
I hope that if/when they do decide to declassify that information that they'll hand it over to TNMOC.
[0] https://www.tnmoc.org/ - It's well worth a visit so when they're open again post-COVID see if you can get down there.
And the US didn't, and here we are today on HN from California.