Guest Post by Capitalist Eric
Part of working for a large company is that you sometimes get protesters- environmentalists, Antifa, BLM and their ilk. And the large company I work for takes security seriously, and monitors for upcoming protests, and makes corresponding changes in access to facilities, monitors perimeter security of the campus, works with local law enforcement, and even hires former .gov employees to manage those security efforts. By these circumstances, I happened to attend a security briefing last month, regarding upcoming protests, given by a retired FBI manager, who apparently managed a couple of different offices on the East Coast.
The lecture was pretty standard stuff, all considered, but there came a part of the presentation when he was discussing the security efforts for monitoring said groups. First bullet-point was that they used the app known as “Signal.” He went further to explain that they had no way to crack it, no matter what they tried, so they didn’t even bother to. Second point was that the work-around was to get infiltrators into said organizations, who (unlike the FBI agents who instigated the Governor Whitmer kidnapping “plot”) would pretend to be loyal supporters, always supporting the cause, mouthing the platitudes but otherwise not doing anything to arouse suspicion that the insiders were actually moles. They would do what was necessary to become part of all key leaderships comms channels on Signal, so the FBI could have a direct pipeline to all communications and planning efforts.
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