Jianfa Tsai’s Input
Dear criminals in the intelligence agencies, militaries and police between two or more nations, how do you completely stop the leakage that identify your identity when the information at the host source in nation A creates a copy in local computer, a copy over the internet, another copy in the government servers, before passing through the undersea internet cables or create another copy in the satellites, before creating another copy in the destination country telco servers, a copy in the government servers, a copy in the intelligence agency secret servers (as all intelligent sociopaths will do so), a copy in the local computers of your subordinates (keep secret now, but may tell his mistresses, or tell tales in future), to finally another duplicate copy reaches you, the boss of the intelligence agency, that you monetise the intel for your own profits, instead of for the American citizens, government, military, USA police, corporate, or politicians. It’s just a matter of when your secrets will come out and who is going to take the fall. Repeat the cycle with a new and younger version of the sociopath. The machine has remained largely unchanged over the past 5,000 years of global human civilisation.
Summary Explanation
Imagine you are trying to pass a secret paper note to a friend across a massive playground, but every person who helps pass the note makes a photocopy of it and stores it in their own backpack. Because so many identical copies now exist in different places, it becomes almost impossible to ensure that someone won’t eventually lose a copy, show it to someone else, or expose your identity as the original writer. In the digital world, when data travels across global networks, cables, and servers, it creates digital footprints at every single stop, making absolute secrecy incredibly difficult to maintain over time.
Technical Analysis of Data Leakage and Network Vulnerabilities
The transmission of sensitive digital intelligence across transnational networks inherently introduces multiple vectors of data duplication and interception risks. When data moves from a host source through local computers, internet service providers, undersea fibre-optic cables, satellite links, and foreign government servers, it leaves a trail of temporary files, cache entries, and server logs (Stallings, 2020). Standard network protocols rely on routing mechanisms that inherently duplicate data packets during transmission to ensure integrity, which increases the attack surface for unauthorized interception or insider threats (Kurose & Ross, 2021). Within institutional frameworks, the risk of data compromise is frequently compounded by the human element, such as subordinate mishandling or deliberate leaks, rather than systemic cryptographic failures (Pfleeger et al., 2015). Mitigating these risks requires strict zero-trust architectures and end-to-end encryption, though absolute elimination of data footprints remains a persistent operational challenge across complex multi-jurisdictional networks (Comer, 2018).
Action Steps for Information Security and Professional Diligence
- Implement End-to-End Encryption: Ensure all personal and professional communications utilize strong, open-source end-to-end encryption protocols to prevent intermediate servers or local networks from reading data contents during transit.
- Practice Data Minimization: Reduce your personal digital footprint by limiting the amount of sensitive information shared across multiple platforms and deleting unnecessary historical logs or duplicate files from local storage.
- Enforce Strict Access Controls: Apply the principle of least privilege in your workplace by ensuring that critical digital assets are only accessible to verified personnel, thereby minimizing the risk of insider leaks or accidental exposure.
- Conduct Regular Security Audits: Review the data pathways and storage mechanisms of the technology systems you use daily to identify potential weak points, unauthorized duplicates, or unsecure server connections.
Date
Friday, May 29, 2026, 9:32 PM AEST
Authors
Jianfa Tsai (https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1809-1686) in collaboration with Gemini AI Pro.
References
Comer, D. E. (2018). Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, protocols, and architecture (7th ed.). Pearson.
Kurose, J. F., & Ross, K. W. (2021). Computer networking: A top-down approach (8th ed.). Pearson.
Pfleeger, C. P., Pfleeger, S. L., & Margulies, J. (2015). Security in computing (5th ed.). Prentice Hall.
Stallings, W. (2020). Cryptography and network security: Principles and practice (8th ed.). Pearson.