It's probably not and it definitely doesn't. Operational security is hard and people have a lot on their plate and in their minds, so forget and slip up etc. M

It's probably not and it definitely doesn't. Operational security is hard and people have a lot on their plate and in their minds, so forget and slip up etc. My mental model is that you are never seeing the totality of communications, but instead imagine people are having communications on several channels (let's say in person, via a phone call, over Whatsapp/SMS/DMs and over email). A conversation in one channel will spill over into another channel. For instance in person or via a phone call will often lead to a "one more thing" moment or followup and the person will follow up over email or dm instead of in-person/voice.