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  • Very Poor Operational Security

    From warmfuzzy@700:100/37 to All on Wed Mar 22 23:20:01 2023
    Just putting this out there... I heard from an old acquaintance that he got paid around $800 a week for intelligence collection. The problem was that its the same dollar amount every single week. So lets say that "bob" earns $812.34 each week. By knowing that exact dollar amount you could infiltrate the financial institutions, search for all deposits that equals exactly that amount noted and you have a trail to *every* low-level intelligence worker. This should be remedied by paying a base wage of $800 and adding a random number from $0 to $50 to randomly change up the monies going out.

    To prevent situations like this you need to consider how criminals think, how you could be exposed by a bad actor that you might think will never happen, but if you don't plan to prepare you plan on failing. Murphy's Laws should always be consulted when thinking upon things like this: If it can be borked it will be borked. Things that will never happen, always happen to at least some degree. The perfect secret will be exposed, out-moding the locks that you think are in place.

    Cheers!
    -warmfuzzy

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  • From k9zw@700:100/69 to warmfuzzy on Thu Mar 23 14:12:10 2023
    On 22 Mar 2023, warmfuzzy said the following...

    Just putting this out there... I heard from an old acquaintance that he got paid around $800 a week for intelligence collection. The problem

    Dispersements and transactional data shouldn't directly lead to either the payer or the payee in this sort of situation in the frst place.

    The transactions need to sustain an end collector shoudl appear as legit normal wage transactions. Whether payment for doing paper routes or wages for mundane work, the regular transactions need to normalized.

    It is rather difficult to pay taxable levels of earned fees/wages on an ongoing basis outside of payroll or lease/rental styles of arrangements.

    --- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS

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