
Families sometimes maintain " family secrets", obliging family members never to discuss disagreeable issues concerning the family with outsiders or sometimes even within the family. Humans may also attempt to conceal aspects of their own self which they are not capable of incorporating psychologically into their conscious being. Humans attempt to consciously conceal aspects of themselves from others due to shame, or from fear of violence, rejection, harassment, loss of acceptance, or loss of employment.

Squirrels bury nuts, hiding them, and they try to remember their locations later. Main article: Sociological aspects of secrecyĪnimals conceal the location of their den or nest from predators.

concealment systems, including such methods as invisible ink, concealing a message in an innocent text, or in a fake covering cryptogram, or other methods in which the existence of the message is concealed from the enemy.Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncratic language ( jargon) or steganography.Īnother classification proposed by Claude Shannon in 1948 reads there are three systems of secrecy within communication: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden during updates on Operation Neptune Spear, a mission against Osama bin Laden, in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. A burn bag and security classification stickers on a laptop computer, between U.S.
