Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by Paracompact on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @08:20PM (#43349153)

I see it like this:

You can either disguise your operation as a goofy sewer inspection van and hope you trick every single person who notices it into second-guessing themselves along the lines of "surely the FBI would be more low-key than that..."

Or you can just be low-key in the first place, end of story. I assume the tech in the modern day (as compared to, like, the 80s when this trope was born) is advanced enough to facilitate this option.

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Re:Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spyi... by autoexec on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:47PM (#43349618)

I think I'd rather assume that I couldn't successfully pull off low key 100% of the time while actively monitoring someone from the street in front of their house, so instead I'd make sure that while 99% of the people will see a sewer inspection van and think nothing of it, the 1% who catches a look inside of the van and thinks it's suspicious will easily find a perfectly reasonable explanation for what they think they saw.

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