Seriously, people. No dirty texts, no emails. It's like no one knows how to have a secret affair.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Nov 10, 2012 12:58:49 pm PST #342 of 30001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
le nubian - Nov 10, 2012 1:02:08 pm PST #343 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, on twitter I was having an exchange with some reporters who verified what I knew about some forms of secure communication:
if you create drafts in an email account, delete the draft and the compose another draft, that can be a secure-ish form of communication. It seems that the journalists think this is what Petraeus was doing with his biographer. Problem is this was P4's personal acct, and so other email messages were there, or at least the addys were in his address book, and so Broadwell had access to them and emailed threats to P4's friend.
Consuela - Nov 10, 2012 1:14:37 pm PST #344 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't see how it can be secure unless you assume that Google's servers are secure, though. Even if the message never leaves the server itself.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2012 1:19:14 pm PST #345 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, if you encrypt the content in gmail, and obfuscate the IPs you access it with, you buy yourself a bit of wiggle room--the government will get you, and so will Anonymous, but journos might not.
Strix - Nov 10, 2012 1:42:10 pm PST #346 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Dude, I am not a spy or a hacker and there's no FUCKING way as a NORMAL person I would have an affair through Gmail. If I was to have an affair, which I wouldn't as the DAMNED HEAD OF THE CIA.
Or, as, yanno, ME. Because if I wanted to fuck someone else so damn badly, I would discuss it with my damned partner.
Maybe I should apply to be an CIA bigwig: "Hi, I'm not in super great shape and I'm 40 but I'm NOT A FUCKING MORON WITH MY LADYBITS! Unblackmailable because I anything I'd done in my personal life, I don't give a flipping fuck who knows it! Plus I'm really smart, but I need to work flexible hours, can stay up 36 to 48 hours no prob, and want a standing RX to Ambien so I can sleep when I'm done! KTHXX!"
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2012 1:49:35 pm PST #347 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there's no FUCKING way as a NORMAL person I would have an affair through Gmail
But tons of normal people would, and a few techies ones would too, with obfuscation layers thrown in. It's certainly got its points over anything involving a phone.
How would you communicate?
Jesse - Nov 10, 2012 1:54:57 pm PST #348 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I guess if you're the head of the CIA, you know about burner phones, but that seems like a huge hassle.
le nubian - Nov 10, 2012 1:57:24 pm PST #349 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
this wouldn't be a problem if his mistress had any fucking common sense tho. If she hadn't emailed one of P4's friends, we probably still wouldn't know about it.
Hil R. - Nov 10, 2012 2:00:49 pm PST #350 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm watching an episode of The Cosby Show where an ethnically ambiguous-looking person is encouraging people to play a guessing game to figure out what she is. This does not correspond with any reality I have ever experienced.
tommyrot - Nov 10, 2012 2:01:57 pm PST #351 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I heard the affair's been over for a bit. Maybe that's why she got jealous and sent the threatening emails.