@ericgarland Hey, everybody.
This message is for everyone working on behalf of Russia, China and other foreign powers, and/or transnational organized crime, to commit heinous criminal acts.
Just between you, me, Eric, and the @FBI, I have a bit of friendly advice.
"Buckle up, Buttercup."
This message is for everyone working on behalf of Russia, China and other foreign powers, and/or transnational organized crime, to commit heinous criminal acts.
Just between you, me, Eric, and the @FBI, I have a bit of friendly advice.
"Buckle up, Buttercup."
@ericgarland @FBI You know the old adage that "We have to be lucky all the time, the terrorists only have to be lucky once"?
Bad news.
When you're committing treason in an insane, sprawling conspiracy connecting virtually every inept spy, asset and major criminal conspiracy on Earth...
Bad news.
When you're committing treason in an insane, sprawling conspiracy connecting virtually every inept spy, asset and major criminal conspiracy on Earth...
@ericgarland @FBI With vast oceans of hard evidence...
Law enforcement and counterintelligence only have to be right... *Once.*
You have to be brilliant, lucky and right. All. The. Time.
And even that may not be enough.
Law enforcement and counterintelligence only have to be right... *Once.*
You have to be brilliant, lucky and right. All. The. Time.
And even that may not be enough.
@ericgarland @FBI Why is that?
First off, you're in a conspiracy of idiots. Even the presumably smart people do disastrous things, like launder money and pay bribes through cryptocurrency.
An unerasable, public, online ledger of *every* transaction.
So, even if you get everything right...
First off, you're in a conspiracy of idiots. Even the presumably smart people do disastrous things, like launder money and pay bribes through cryptocurrency.
An unerasable, public, online ledger of *every* transaction.
So, even if you get everything right...
@ericgarland @FBI You're tied to people getting it *wrong,* spectacularly, on so many levels we will literally need next-generation computers to see just how legally doomed so many of these people are.
And if you're tied to them in a RICO conspiracy, you're apt to be on the hook for their crimes.
And if you're tied to them in a RICO conspiracy, you're apt to be on the hook for their crimes.
@ericgarland @FBI But that's the *good* news.
The bad new is... You probably don't know how much you don't know.
Even if you're versed in intelligence.
Even if you're a genius.
Something this extensive involves every aspect of life, and every possible, applicable technology.
The bad new is... You probably don't know how much you don't know.
Even if you're versed in intelligence.
Even if you're a genius.
Something this extensive involves every aspect of life, and every possible, applicable technology.
@ericgarland @FBI No one is brilliant enough to keep track of every possible way it can all go wrong.
Or how many technologies have known implications for what you're doing.
But there's *worse* news.
Or how many technologies have known implications for what you're doing.
But there's *worse* news.
@ericgarland @FBI We're in a constant state of technological change.
Not hyperbole. Reality.
Quantum search has been on the horizon for years.
We now have basic quantum computers. Even without radical changes, quantum search will be applied to the *vast* archives of hard evidence online.
Not hyperbole. Reality.
Quantum search has been on the horizon for years.
We now have basic quantum computers. Even without radical changes, quantum search will be applied to the *vast* archives of hard evidence online.
@ericgarland @FBI But as earthshaking as that prospect is, it's a *foreseeable* outcome.
It's been on the horizon for years.
Another outcome that was foreseeable?
People lying about their 2019 cryptocurrency earnings, when the IRS knew their accounts.
It's been on the horizon for years.
Another outcome that was foreseeable?
People lying about their 2019 cryptocurrency earnings, when the IRS knew their accounts.
https://twitter.com/Dry_Observer/status/1307736636353019909
@ericgarland @FBI But what happens when other things, *not* easily foreseeable, surface?
Even if you were a genius in every technology, in every field of human endeavor, you can't literally know what everyone will invent.
Especially the unexpected technologies - the "black swans" out of nowhere.
Even if you were a genius in every technology, in every field of human endeavor, you can't literally know what everyone will invent.
Especially the unexpected technologies - the "black swans" out of nowhere.
@ericgarland @FBI So someone points out how to data mine deep-cover spies using big data.
Or how to automate the super resolution, facial recognition & data mining of video - from Federal security videos picking up foreign-citizen spies to terabytes of footage of unspeakable acts on the Darknet.
Or how to automate the super resolution, facial recognition & data mining of video - from Federal security videos picking up foreign-citizen spies to terabytes of footage of unspeakable acts on the Darknet.
@ericgarland @FBI How to automate lip reading from those radically enhanced videos. Even in tonal-dependent languages like Chinese or Japanese.
How to track, potentially, most of the world's malware and hacking.
And on and on.
How to track, potentially, most of the world's malware and hacking.
And on and on.
@ericgarland @FBI But finally, we get into the really bad news.
None of your compatriots are selfless. They were compromised by greed or blackmail or ego or possibly ideology.
They'll turn on you in a heartbeat.
Your fellow assets. Your handlers and their intelligence operatives.
None of your compatriots are selfless. They were compromised by greed or blackmail or ego or possibly ideology.
They'll turn on you in a heartbeat.
Your fellow assets. Your handlers and their intelligence operatives.
@ericgarland @FBI Anyone implicated will turn on anyone they must to protect themselves.
Any intelligence operative of any dictator will destroy you the moment you become a problem... or they simply find a better use from your destruction than from your survival.
Any intelligence operative of any dictator will destroy you the moment you become a problem... or they simply find a better use from your destruction than from your survival.
@ericgarland @FBI And law enforcement and counterintelligence are constantly circling, and likely have more than enough to put you away already.
But in such a target rich environment, they have reason to prioritize, and to continue harvesting evidence from the unknowingly exposed...
But in such a target rich environment, they have reason to prioritize, and to continue harvesting evidence from the unknowingly exposed...
@ericgarland @FBI And willing cooperators.
How long did, say, Flynn or Papadopoulos wear a wire?
Hypothetically?
How long have others?
How long have targets, knowingly or unknowingly, had their phones hot miked?
Or simply kept the line open to Quantico during key meetings?
How long did, say, Flynn or Papadopoulos wear a wire?
Hypothetically?
How long have others?
How long have targets, knowingly or unknowingly, had their phones hot miked?
Or simply kept the line open to Quantico during key meetings?
@ericgarland @FBI We could continue, but what's the point?
After all, the *point* is that no one person can even count all the points of vulnerability in such a suicidal enterprise.
After all, the *point* is that no one person can even count all the points of vulnerability in such a suicidal enterprise.
@ericgarland @FBI And that even a brilliant operative, enmeshed in this web, is already falling, afflicted by a thousand unseen wounds.
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