February 8, 2023

There’s always something to learn from people engaged in clandestine activity. A good example is this article on the Mexican Mafia. One of the quotes in here really stands out as a great lesson on OPSEC.

This is from a tapped phone conversation between a number of Mexican Mafia leaders discussing their illegal activities:

"So we all got to be careful, man, about what's going on, because you got a lot of us that are doing a lot of things... What we're involved [in], we can't keep nothing quiet. It's not that we, we're not trying. It's the nature of the thing, the business, homes."

When there are a lot of people involved in secret activity, it is very hard to keep secret. And the more it interacts with society the harder it is to keep secret.

https://www.corrections1.com/contraband/articles/contraband-cellphones-coded-messages-help-mexican-mafia-operate-in-calif-prisons-lgZu94hkmWs4hXNv/

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@moarbugs Looks like a very interesting course!! I regularly teach similar topics at Illinois, feel free to check if our paper list this semester would be helpful:

lingming.cs.illinois.eduCS527: Topics in Software Engineering

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