Sunday, September 11, 2011

Networking is tricky

Keeping in touch with other spies is worth the risk if you can pass encrypted messages without detection.

Anyone who approaches you and claims they are a spy will be a cop.

Anyone who approaches you and has a very polarized world view is either a spy or a cop.

Anyone who starts up a random conversation with you after you have seen them around several of your "favourite" places will most definitely be a spy.

People you can trust are few and far between.

Ironically the more you learn about security the fewer people you can trust - yet the more people you need to trust grows as you learn about security...

Great places for "exchanging" information or cyphers are:

Libraries - but who goes there?
Chat rooms online - watch for cops
Drop points - just random places to drop an encrypted CD or thumb drive
Face to face meets - randomly take the same night class at the college

I had one buddy who would slip intel through my open car window and I would do the same for him. part of the encrypted information in the intel was a detailed schedule of where his car would be for the next week - I would use that information to track the car and drop the data. It worked great for 2 years.

Set up a schedule and don't follow any set pattern for meeting i.e. every tuesday meet in shady alley.

Get out there and network but it  is a quagmire of cops and double agents!

Jay

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