> If the whole point of being a spy is that nobody knows who you really are and no one can ever find out, how exactly are you supposed to achieve this level of

> If the whole point of being a spy is that nobody knows who you really are and no one can ever find out, how exactly are you supposed to achieve this level of anonymity when you’ve flung untold reams of identifiable content across the digital world? When everyone has an online presence, the absence of such a presence raises huge red flags. I would expect every spy on earth nowadays has tons of pictures on social media showing them having fun with their friends, cool vacations they've been on, selfies with famous people they've met. So long as they don't tweet something dumb like "CIA's sending me to Belarus #Coup2022", anyone looking at their profile will most likely see a normal person who is probably here for normal reasons. Sure maybe if they went over the profile with a fine tooth comb they'ed notice some things that don't add up, but there isn't a reason to look closer. On the other hand the person without a social media gets scrutinized, and regardless of when you were born there is information on you out there that a sufficiently motivated individual can find.