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.
Contraband cellphones, coded messages help Mexican Mafia operate in Calif. prisons
In 2022, over 6,700 phones were seized, which were used to traffic in drugs, collect money and orchestrate murders, according to testimony
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They made people want to use Bing.
