Thoughts on SR72
The single take away from Nate in SR72 is the following:
The government and the police try to ban E2EE, but those same people also use the same E2EE implementations.
Such hypocrisy.
There's nothing more to say.
Maybe MKULTRA as a psyop is more successful than any Stranger Things imagining of that whole conspiracy...
Orwell's 1984 is literally the dogma of the Five Eyes.
Conclusion
Nathan Bartram of The New Oil has a much better tradecraft (which hypothetically could be improved) and philosophy (which can't be reasonably changed without becoming authoritarian) than Henry of Techlore.
I like to think this is because Nate gets his tradecraft from Michael Bazzell.
It's probably the best modern day version of The Paper Trip pamphlet, which is somewhat outdated now that PII records are computerized. Barely Sociable made a video on The Paper Trip (but TBH, the people he covered in that video sound like Network sleeper agents from Utopia more than anything else).
Unfortunately, you won't find much info on The Paper Trip on Wikipedia:
- Barry Reid is the author of the pamphlet, and
- Eden Press is apparently the publisher, which is at the end of the last 3 paragraphs of the “General description” section of the “Ghosting (identity theft)” article on Wikipedia.
- However, Eden Press has made 3 more editions afterwards. Even though the 4th edition is probably still out of date, it seems to illustrate the underlying principles that never change by explicit example.