First, I was born and bred in this. The group I really work for has no name, but we have people in many organizations. This goes back to the 19th century.
Officially, my birth dad went MIA shortly have touching down, in Laos (an illegal war at the time). This is him:
http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/10453/WILLIAM-M-COPLEY
I was raised by a relative who largely worked at a major DC law firm, which was founded by two CI men coming right out of FBI CI WWII. They were part of a massive project to create a false company that would allow FBI agents consistent cover and paychecks.
All that said, my existence, or paper trail, pre-1997, is virtually non-existent.
First project, befriended players at cDc, cult of the dead cow, the main pro bono hacking group back then.
Then, I invented the first html trojan, and created an accompanying paper that predicted how this was the inevitable route foreign intelligence would take.
Then, I was invited to co-found a special projects group with cDc whose main purpose was to poke China in the eye.
It worked.
Skipping ahead some, I ran personas here from about 2010, Fall, to about 2013, at which time I very, very slowly started to supposedly talk about these matters.
Basically the idea was to create a pseudo-anonymous central master character
who was the “real” me. That “real me” chacter was throwing out things any group foreign or dirty domestic would be interested in. I pretended to be crazy and so unaware of what I was doing.
I did not only post here, but I also posted other places. At certain turns of the proverbial clock, I would share very specific phrases between personas, seemingly accidentally.
One such phrase was “there is no truth, because people believe what they want to believe based on their prefences”.
All in all, for what I am willing to say, obviously my job as been to play the “human” target.
:-)
Spies normally never reveal their hand, so obviously, I am not really doing so. Or, I may be.
You decide.
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