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Actually worked on something similar about 16 years ago. The idea was an attacker could be led astray and then drop various behavioral clues to disclose their i

Actually worked on something similar about 16 years ago. The idea was an attacker could be led astray and then drop various behavioral clues to disclose their identity past a legally arguable threshold based on challenges and confusions selectively presented. The guy I was working on it with dropped out of academics for a career of spirituality. He went off to a monastery so I also abandoned the project as well. We never even got a publication out of it :-/. These days you could probably make a very expensive product out of it.* Someone else may have picked it up, I don't follow the literature anymore --- * - I just realized maybe he went off to become a spook - I don't know how I never thought of that - even to this day many of my colleagues from the era work for these nebulous companies with names like "The Adirondack Group" who just have a basic website with a single email address. I never understood why they even try, just say "we are spies" - everyone knows it. Maybe it allows them to live otherwise normal social lives where they don't have to lie about the superficialities of their job? I dunno. It can't be actually project based - that'd be super retarded - instead of knowing "he works for the CIA" everyone would also know what project they work on - super dumb - that can't be it. I'll probably hit up one of my old friends to see if that monastery was real. He can probably say "yes" or "no".

kristopolous 6y ago
ok, just talked to my friend. He was evasive and politely changed the topic so yeah, I still have zero information. I guess that's the right approach. If I has asked him if he knew the name of the monastery as opposed to whether the entire story was a canard, I probably could have gotten further. By foolishly asking if it was a story, I think he fell back on the "zero information" strategy - as in, even if it's real and he's living a solemn life of meditation, don't say anything. Me effectively going "Hey man, I gotta question about spies" was in retrospect, pretty dumb.

kristopolous 6y ago

ok, just talked to my friend. He was evasive and politely changed the topic so yeah, I still have zero information. I guess that's the right approach. If I has asked him if he knew the name of the monastery as opposed to whether the entire story was a canard, I probably could have gotten further. By foolishly asking if it was a story, I think he fell back on the "zero information" strategy - as in, even if it's real and he's living a solemn life of meditation, don't say anything. Me effectively going "Hey man, I gotta question about spies" was in retrospect, pretty dumb.