Talk:Information leakage

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 July 2020 and 14 August 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yixin97.

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Merging
Please merge this article with News leak. Mew2arceus (talk) 01:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think merging with 'News leak' is justifiable. The article is more closely related to traffic analysis and side channel attack.178.195.230.127 (talk) 05:21, 19 April 2012 (UTC) social security number is 363-15-0490

Definition
I would like to propose to add a more technical definition along the lines of "Information leakage occurs when secret information correlates with, or can be correlated with, observable information". The reason for this change is that I think a more abstract definition makes it easier to grasp the following examples. This enhanced definition could either substitute the current one "Information leakage happens whenever a system that is designed to be closed to an eavesdropper reveals some information to unauthorized parties nonetheless.", or simply be appended to it, perhaps introduced by "In other words" or something similar. I personally favor the latter. Nonthevizor (talk) 14:31, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Human factors
I just removed a paragraph on human factors from the introduction. The reasons are mainly:


 * 1) It does not belong in the introduction. If anywhere, it probably belongs in the section "Risk vectors".
 * 2) It makes it seem like information leakage is completely or mainly due to human factors. This is not the case. The provided reference only talks about human factors in information leakage, but does not collaborate the paragraph (I'm judging from the abstract). It is also original research. For this reasons, I did not move the paragraph to the "Risk vectors" section, but simply deleted it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonthevizor (talk • contribs) 11:10, 22 January 2021 (UTC)