Comment by alganet
1 year ago
If spies were obvious and visible in a way that we could see their intelligence work, they would not be spies, they would be diplomats.
Do you get my point? If there is non-cybernetics human espionage activity, you are not supposed to see it. To people unaware of it, it looks like it doesn't exist.
In this scenario, all this shit about spies (movies estabilishing their personas, tall tales, especulations) is nothing but misdirection.
The espionage holy grail is not perfect tech, is perfect misdirection. Of course, the concept exists, but nothing is perfect.
Both of our discourses are hypothetical, we can't offer any proof. On what grounds can you dismiss mine? (don't worry about it, I don't want to win an argument).
>In this scenario, all this shit about spies (movies estabilishing their personas, tall tales, especulations) is nothing but misdirection.
Not if you are arrested for espionage.
Of course I cannot disclose my sources and methods - I concede the argument.
I can disclose my sources and methods. I just reverse engineered it from widely available distribution mechanisms. I know I got a lot of things wrong, but I got a lot of things right as well.