History Main / LooseLips

-->''Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.''
--->--'''Creator/BenjaminFranklin'''

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When someone gives away sensitive information unintentionally because they can't keep it to themselves. The TropeNamer is the famous slogan from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII "Loose Lips Sink Ships".

Because TechnologyMarchesOn, it's even easier than ever to get people killed by running your mouth off, thanks to websites such as LiveJournal, {{Facebook}}, TVTropes, and ThatOtherWiki. Always beware that when you talk about something that is privileged or secret, you might as well be standing on a roof top with a big sign and a megaphone.

* As mentioned above, the TropeNamer is the slogan from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, reminding people to be careful what they talk about in public, lest Axis spies pick up valuable clues.

* "Journalist" Geraldo Rivera in early 2003, while Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq during a Fox News broadcast, Rivera began to disclose an upcoming operation, even going so far as to draw a map in the sand for his audience. The military immediately issued a firm denunciation of his actions, saying it put the operation at risk, and nearly expelled Rivera from Iraq.

* ''Series/{{Justified}}:

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', a flashback to the night of the eponymous character's birth shows Kakashi talking to [[spoiler: Rin's]] grave, wherein he talks about said information. Unbeknownst to him, [[[[spoiler: EvilFormerFriend Obito]]]], who Kakashi believes to be dead, is eavesdropping, and learns the secret - after which he [[spoiler: tries to kill Naruto, then unleashes the Kyubi.]]

* ''DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': The eponymous IneffectualSympatheticVillain has a blog, which he uses to talk to his fans about various things he's done and his plans for future schemes. [[spoiler: This backfires on him in Act II when it turns out his viewing audience includes [[ArchEnemy Captain Hammer]] and the LAPD.]]

When this is subverted, it can become FeedTheMole. A subtrope of SayingTooMuch.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' has the main character asking a few too many people where the detective's office is, allowing the bad guys to find it.

A real danger, even if you don't live in a CityOfSpies, particularly if you unwittingly work near TheMole or are the target of a HoneyTrap (A warning commonly given to members of the military when they are going out into town: [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction "If a girl acts interested in you, and if you're ugly, then it's a trick." ]])

* Parodied in a flashback in ''{{Airplane}}'' The hero tells his girlfriend that he's going to be sent out on a mission soon. He then goes on to mention exactly where he's going, what he's going to be bombing, what time of day they'll be attacking, how high they'll be flying, and what direction they'll be coming in from. But he refuses to give her a rough estimate of when he'll be back from the mission, because that's classified.

When someone gives away sensitive information unintentionally because they can't keep it to themselves. The TropeNamer is the famous slogan from WorldWarII "Loose Lips Sink Ships".

* As mentioned above, the TropeNamer is the slogan from WorldWarII, reminding people to be careful what they talk about in public, lest Axis spies pick up valuable clues.

--->'''StephenColbert:''' He's the only reporter out here who's got the cojones to walk it like he talks it! He can't be constrained by concern for the safety and security of men who have invited him to join them at great risk to both themselves and their military objective! If he gets everybody killed, so be it. He's not gonna pussy out.

Due to the fact that TechnologyMarchesOn, it's even easier than ever to get people killed by running your mouth off, thanks to websites such as LiveJournal, {{Facebook}}, TVTropes, and ThatOtherWiki. Always beware that when you talk about something that is privileged or secret, you might as well be standing on a roof top with a big sign and a megaphone.

* ''[[http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_kingsjest.htm The Ballad of the King's Jest]]'' by Creator/RudyardKipling, about a talkative man running into TheGreatGame and discovering that his boss in Kabul doesn't have so much patience that this could end well for him.

* ''MassEffect3'': The ''Alliance News Network'' twitter updates on the Reaper invasion of Earth, which included details on where civilians were able to get military protection so they could escape Earth. [[spoiler: Emily Wong]] realized too late that the Reapers had been reading the tweets to find out where the evacuation point was so they could attack it.

When this is subverted, it can become FeedTheMole.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In "People v. Rabb", when Admiral Chegwidden says that what he's about to say is sensitive, Bud replies that ''My loose lips will sink no ships''.