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by nonrandomstring
807 days ago
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Accidentally revealing your intelligence gathering capability is a
famous trade-off problem. The Allies in WW2 occasionally had to let a
ship get sunk rather than make it obvious that the Enigma had been
cracked [0]. Plausible alternatives are usually assured to be in
place, for example radar in the above case, or parallel construction
in modern law enforcement. Bigtech are likely increasingly careful about making it too obvious
that certain technologies (for de-anonymisation and correlation) are
in use. Most people will still believe in unlikely coincidences rather
than sophisticated behavioural analysis and covert monitoring of
audio systems etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma |
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