dagblog - Comments for "An Economic Primer for Spies"

Ah - PGP is the encryption &

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:21:09 +0000

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Ah - PGP is the encryption & verification method where you often have a funny long series of characters as your "public key". But not quite all 1'sies & 0'sies.

No idea what that is. Just

EmmaZahn — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:44:40 +0000

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No idea what that is. Just thought I would make it easier on NSA to read. Not even sure it worked outside the little converter program I found online. :)

Duh. There are some serious

EmmaZahn — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:43:09 +0000

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Duh.

There are some serious money wars afoot. Governments everywhere are trying to figure out how to regain control of their finances from their own financial sectors most of whom have already gone global and who will happily play against their own central bank if it is profitable enough.

Of course they would spy on G20.

You're new to PGP, aren't

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:40:32 +0000

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You're new to PGP, aren't you?

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EmmaZahn — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:23:14 +0000

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Actually it is useful to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:13:06 +0000

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Actually it is useful to remind that intelligence doesn't always mean the account number to a bank or a license plate - it can be understanding how a group works, any tensions or background info, anything to exploit, to get an edge, who's the decider, who are influencers, who just suck it up and do as they're told (Alberto Gonzales?)

They say The goal seems to

EmmaZahn — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:39:12 +0000

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They say The goal seems to involve capturing some kind of economic secrets. I think: um no, the goal clearly would seem to be to get an upper hand at the negotiating at these meetings by knowing what the others were planning to say, how what they really thought might differ, where they were willing to change their mind, where they might be fudging or bluffing, etc.

What's the difference?

I just thought it worthwhile to remind daggers of the economic espionage aspect of what NSA is doing. Maybe add some perspective to where the vast majority of us rank as their targets.

Not that I totally agree with the authors. Their careers have been spent in the upper reaches of world finance. They probably do think there is a King or rather Kings of the World. After all, Johnson did write 13 Bankers.

Finally got to reading this.

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 08:02:53 +0000

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Finally got to reading this. It sounds to me like they are economists who are clueless about world diplomacy and maybe just clueless about negotiations of any kind. They say The goal seems to involve capturing some kind of economic secrets. I think: um no, the goal clearly would seem to be to get an upper hand at the negotiating at these meetings by knowing what the others were planning to say, how what they really thought might differ, where they were willing to change their mind, where they might be fudging or bluffing, etc. I also think: geez, they must think somebody is in charge at these meetings--like a King of the World?- and can tell everyone else what to do and that everyone else will obey.