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Re:How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents i... by riversflow on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:23AM (#33716929)
Why would I trust these interviews with clandestine operatives as being factual?
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Re:How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents i... by mhoad on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:49AM (#33717122)
You are exactly the kind of person I had in mind when I made that original comment.
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Re:How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents i... by selfhoster11 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:19AM (#33717340)
You gotta trust someone, at some point.
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Re:How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents i... by t-3 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:17AM (#33717795)
So you start with the least trustworthy? Do you ask Elon Musk whether on not it's a good day to buy TSLA?
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Re:How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents i... by ImHereToVote on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:32AM (#33721299)
Why? You have to make choices regardless of trust anyway.
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