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"Please don't talk tradecraft to me." Fine I'm doing it wrong, but you don't have to be a dick about it by waving around someone's lack of knowledge in this sp
by malandrew 13y ago
"Please don't talk tradecraft to me."
Fine I'm doing it wrong, but you don't have to be a dick about it by waving around someone's lack of knowledge in this space and then saying they are not even knowledgable enough to interact with you. Doing so does not raise the level of discourse.
- Nrsolis 13y agoDude. This is serious stuff. Try and understand that for the better part of Western History, getting caught with anything that might be considered a tool of espionage or meeting with the wrong person might be a death sentence. Hence, tradecraft. These are skills designed to make things like hand-offs of materiel (called the brush-pass) or an surveillance detection run (to make sure you're not followed) a kind of second nature. I'm sorry you were offended but I took your comment to be quite flippant. There is a reason why we have professionals for this sort of thing. If you're truly interested, go read up on the subject. There is a lot of good info that details what the training is like, and what skills you need to do this sort of work. Double-O-Seven it ain't. Good tradecraft keeps you ALIVE. It's not for amateurs.