Interesting look at all the "infrastructure" needed to maintain spies in their covert lifestyle.
To keep someone covert for real, and to do so for any period of time, requires a time consuming dance that not only has to tend to someone's operational identity but also maintain their real life back home. As Darby explains it, this includes clandestine bill paying but also working with banks and credit card security departments to look the other way as they search for identity fraud or money laundering. And then, signature reduction technicians need to ensure that real credit scores are maintained—and even real taxes and Social Security payments are kept up to date—so that people can go back to their dormant lives when their signature reduction assignments cease.
Befitting how secret this world is, there is no unclassified definition of signature reduction.
And they can change fingerprints using a silicon sleeve that so snugly fits over a real hand it can't be detected, embedding altered fingerprints and even impregnated with the oils found in real skin. Asked whether the appliance is effective, one source, who has gone through the training, laughs. "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."
Somehow, I don't think he was kidding!
Also discusses really, really, good silicon face masks for altering appearances.
Then came the DNA scare, when Adm. John Richardson, then chief of naval operations, warned military personnel and their families to stop using at-home ancestry DNA test kits. "Be careful who you send your DNA to," Richardson said, warning that scientific advancements would be able to exploit the information, creating more and more targeted biological weapons in the future.
""KITS"", the CIA and FBI, coordinated with Hollywood Movie Studios and their people, in order to take Stage Makeup to another level....
Hollywood responded with Silicon Masks, those that passed, made Agents undeniably look like someone else, Young Men looked like Old Women, as an example, so the only barrier is really Skin Color and height, and even in some instances, this can also be somewhat manipulated....
SPY TECH, is probably the most advanced form of Warfare in existence, it's easily, decades ahead of most other Tech, and now with AI, and APPS that add or remove certain features from Faces and Bodies, over videoed transmissions, it's just going to get a lot trickier to be able to tell who is real and who isn't....
Even the Chinese have a workable trick headset that flashes multiple different faces on the wearers face in order to fool the AI that does the Tracking via Cams on the street....
It's mos def, getting very interesting out there.....
Interesting look at all the "infrastructure" needed to maintain spies in their covert lifestyle.
Somehow, I don't think he was kidding!
Also discusses really, really, good silicon face masks for altering appearances.
Interesting!
""KITS"", the CIA and FBI, coordinated with Hollywood Movie Studios and their people, in order to take Stage Makeup to another level....
Hollywood responded with Silicon Masks, those that passed, made Agents undeniably look like someone else, Young Men looked like Old Women, as an example, so the only barrier is really Skin Color and height, and even in some instances, this can also be somewhat manipulated....
SPY TECH, is probably the most advanced form of Warfare in existence, it's easily, decades ahead of most other Tech, and now with AI, and APPS that add or remove certain features from Faces and Bodies, over videoed transmissions, it's just going to get a lot trickier to be able to tell who is real and who isn't....
Even the Chinese have a workable trick headset that flashes multiple different faces on the wearers face in order to fool the AI that does the Tracking via Cams on the street....
It's mos def, getting very interesting out there.....