Spies are bunk

A random online article about the spy games played by auto companies reminded me of a larger parallel.

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In the 50s and 60s car mags emphasized the trickery and skullduggery of industrial spies. Each company guarded its new models and inventions carefully, each company paid spies and defectors to gather secrets.

Memoirs by former stylists tell us that spycraft wasn’t needed. All the stylists knew each other, all the execs knew each other, all the industrial engineers knew each other. Within each occupation people moved around often. Everyone knew everything, and everyone tried to help the company he was currently working for. Suppliers also knew everything. Each glass company made windshields for everyone. Each tool and die firm made body shapers and engine casters for everyone.

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At the national level, CIA trumpeted its secrecy and decoding victories. In reality there wasn’t much coding. Russia knew more about our military than our citizens did, and KGB rarely used actual spies. They just read the newspapers and observed where we were moving our troops and ships.

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Both realms display the same mythical facade for separate purposes. Customers and citizens are led to believe that spies are everywhere. For car customers, our mythical belief made us hungry to peek through the paper that covered dealer windows each October. No harm to us, just clever marketing. For national citizens, our mythical belief suppressed dissent far more effectively than actual censorship. We were forced to swear loyalty oaths everywhere. Now we’re forced to show our digital fingerprints everywhere. The purpose is NOT secrecy, the purpose is control.

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Metalevel: We don’t need to spy on them. We don’t need fake conspiracy theories or fake FOIA “revelations” to decode the enemy. We just observe what happens. We observe that EVERY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD (with two exceptions) instantly enforced the “virus” concentration camp in 2020, and we observe that the two leaders who disobeyed were killed. No decryption, no FOIA, just movements of troops and ships.

For example, I observe that Canvas makes me jump through a security hurdle every 15 minutes when I’m uploading and debugging courseware. Over thousands of repeats in many months those unpredictable rhythm-breakers mounted up to a massive waste of time, intelligence and patience. I also observe that the Shiny Whatever hacking group managed to hack all of Canvas with very little trouble. “Security” doesn’t guard against criminals, it injures non-criminals.