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Everyone loves a good spy story but this one just misses a lot. Creepy people with seemingly fragile LinkedIn profiles setup meetings to ask questions in fancy
by jarym 8y ago
Everyone loves a good spy story but this one just misses a lot.
Creepy people with seemingly fragile LinkedIn profiles setup meetings to ask questions in fancy hotels and restaurants.
It could be something, it could be nothing. Either way the story doesn’t seem to provide much one way or another. Maybe it’s just me, not expecting James Bond but some evidence of something sinister would have made this more compelling
- pdpi 8y agoSome evidence of something sinister would have the other side incompetent. The problem with this sort of smoke and mirrors business is that it's borderline impossible to tell an appropriately-sophisticated adversary from paranoia.
- jarym 8y agoYou put what I was getting at far more eloquently. If there are bad guys up to no good then there needs to be more evidence to counteract the possibility of paranoia.
- nyolfen 8y agoa stranger asking about workplace rivalries and drama suggests to me that they were looking to sow discord between the employees or identify one they could flip for dirt about the others. recording the meeting and asking weird leading questions seems to imply some kind of james o'keefe-style attempt to portray them in a negative light in the press. both together, by someone using a fabricated identity, leaves little ambiguity about ill intent imo.
- devwastaken 8y agoI'm not sure what kind of sinister you're looking for. They're trying to get dirt on academic scholars, I'd call that sinister. Not only that but the specific questions, and the fact they got them into a room, is a warning.
- sigmar 8y ago>It could be something, it could be nothing. Multiple people collaborating in a campaign to collect information or compromising material on Citizen Lab seems like something (regardless of whether they are sophisticated or well funded)