The current state of affairs may have been encouraged - though not justified - by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage.
Fenn, who has been loath to give away additional clues-" It's all in the poem, " he would tell inquisitive hunters-has recently started sharing more details.
It is responsible discretion exercised in the national interest to prevent unnecessary disclosure of eminently justifiable procedures in which untimely revelation could severely impair public confidence.