Alexandra’s Reviews > Red Team Blues > Status Update

“Even more conspicuous. He was a very bad conspirator. Clearly, he did most of his work with a fountain pen, not a six-gun.”

… I found a seat near a plug and connected my laptop, manually changed my laptop’s MAC address, opened up a Tor session, and started hunting the Zetas’ banker.”

“San Francisco Public Library was the first public library branch in the country to hire a full-time social worker. It loaned out suits and ties for job interviews. It had a coat check that would securely store my bundle buggy. And it had privacy-loving librarians who did not allow the city or the feds to monitor connections to its Wi-Fi, a Wi-Fi connection that accepted Tor sessions. …

“Homelessness is the American vanishing point”

“Bates’s proposal is a death sentence, only slower. Change your name, abandon your friendships, leave your country, live underground until you die. Not because you committed a crime but because Bates doesn’t want to lift his hand to _stop_ the crimes that will arise from doing the honorable thing.”

“‘You lead a very exciting life,’ she said at last. ‘It sounds terrible.’”

“But industrial locks had a much longer duty cycle than bike locks, and changing them out was a nightmare, requiring that new keys be made and distributed to the maintenance people, letting agents, owners, et cetera. How much hassle would a building owner go through to make it more difficult to get into the garbage room?”

“in whatever building I was destined to spend my years in, in Tangiers or Lima or Stockholm”

Dell Duke also used wildlife documentaries to fall asleep…

“Team blue is team minimalism, the Marie Kondo of security. If a procedure does not fill you with joy, remove it and replace it with a simpler one.”