Spies, Lies and Realpolitik

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Ireland just asked Russia to downsize their embassy staff rather than selecting which ones to formally designate as spies and boot out.

Which strikes me as more reasonable.

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Unrelated but added here because I can’t post more than twice in succession:

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Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm’s network via legacy IT

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Wondering about her involvement in this. Willing participant? Or a dupe?

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The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) has reiterated that there’s a growing risk that Finns could be taken hostage as the Russian regime uses prisoners as leverage.

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Russian intelligence services are building up their presence in Mexico for spy operations targeting the United States, a return to Cold War tactics by an increasingly aggressive regime, according to U.S. officials and former intelligence officers.

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Lynch was associated with British, American and other intelligence services through his various companies, including the cyber security company he founded, Darktrace.

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Watertight safes? On a boat? Why, that’s a stroke of pure genius!

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Perhaps they too could be fitted with some form of buoyancy device so that they could function, briefly, as boats. Ones that you could wait on until rescue perhaps.

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Quick, to the time machine! Let’s tell Harland & Wolff all about it!

Stale jokes aside, if it’s a safe for really sensitive stuff on a boat I’d think about a salt plug or maybe a combination of burn box and scuttling device.

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(should have been a reply to @FGD135)

And water-soluble ink, as the WWII codebooks on Nazi subs had.

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I don’t doubt that they did but that seems like a really bad idea, considering a U Boat was dripping condensation from the walls like a Clydesdale after having been mistaken for a racehorse.

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