Re:Suicide Linux (2009)
by kristopolous on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:16PM
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ok, just talked to my friend. He was evasive and politely changed the topic so yeah, I still have zero information. I guess that's the right approach.
If I has asked him if he knew the name of the monastery as opposed to whether the entire story was a canard, I probably could have gotten further. By foolishly asking if it was a story, I think he fell back on the "zero information" strategy - as in, even if it's real and he's living a solemn life of meditation, don't say anything. Me effectively going "Hey man, I gotta question about spies" was in retrospect, pretty dumb.
The guy I was working on it with dropped out of academics for a career of spirituality. He went off to a monastery so I also abandoned the project as well. We never even got a publication out of it :-/. These days you could probably make a very expensive product out of it.*
Someone else may have picked it up, I don't follow the literature anymore
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* - I just realized maybe he went off to become a spook - I don't know how I never thought of that - even to this day many of my colleagues from the era work for these nebulous companies with names like "The Adirondack Group" who just have a basic website with a single email address. I never understood why they even try, just say "we are spies" - everyone knows it. Maybe it allows them to live otherwise normal social lives where they don't have to lie about the superficialities of their job? I dunno. It can't be actually project based - that'd be super retarded - instead of knowing "he works for the CIA" everyone would also know what project they work on - super dumb - that can't be it. I'll probably hit up one of my old friends to see if that monastery was real. He can probably say "yes" or "no".