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I’d absolutely plant cab drivers to spy on my geopolitical adversaries. People who have a plausible explanation to be in and around hotels, airports, industrial
by sakjur 3y ago
I’d absolutely plant cab drivers to spy on my geopolitical adversaries. People who have a plausible explanation to be in and around hotels, airports, industrial areas, and a legitimate reason talk to lots of different people would seem like quite good candidates for spying. Maybe a bit too obvious.
- psychphysic 3y agoThey'd pick up absolute junk information.
- Simon_O_Rourke 3y agoAbsolutely, the amount of yarns I regularly spin to taxi drivers would bankrupt the credulous. My usual one being advice to invest heavily in manganese futures.
- newsclues 3y ago99% would be. But 1% might be something useful.
- baybal2 3y agoCountries indeed used cab drivers as spies, ie USSR
- fooker 3y agoThey absolutely did, even Russia does so. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.08.2023-suspected-taxi-driving-russian-spy-detained-by-latvian-security-service.a520678/ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.08.2023-suspecte...
- foldr 3y agoFine, but why bother sneaking them in as refugees when you could just bribe any number of cab drivers already in the vicinity?