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I love James Mickens!

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

> The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, […] they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.






So this is where they got the pager and walkie talkie ideas from

You know, I didn't really think of this till your comment: this was a vast conspiracy spanning years. You always hear, when discussions of "conspiracies" happen, things like "it would involve too many people, too many moving parts" like opsec would be impossible. And then you have the pagers.

Kinda like the old chestnut that rich people are only rich on paper and then, Musk buys twitter. Not tesla, or some DBA, Musk.

This decade might actually be the season of reveal.


I think this is a human thing, being very myopic given our short lifespans, we forget even relatively recent things.

The Cold War for example was full of these intricate, complex and stunning feats of spycraft that they'd pull off on each other.




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