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(Continued from Part 1.)

Option 4: The live drop:

A person-to-person message drop can be performed as well, but it has the highest level of risk for someone to intercept or notice.

You have probably seen a live drop in movies where a briefcase changes hands in a crowded terminal or something, very observable for those paying attention and not overly discrete. It is absolutely critical that, if it can be avoided, the two individuals performing a live drop have no discernable connection with each other or readily identifiable groups! If known club member A passes by known club member B and has any kind of interaction, people in the know will put that together. However, if club member A has his grandma’s neighbor do the interaction, it may not be recognized quite as readily.

As I mentioned for the briefcase transfer, some drops need to be larger in size. The live drop is a certain way to guarantee that the target package has receipt by the target recipient – but it puts all the parties “at the scene”. Disguise is paramount…you may have to go to great lengths (like ‘borrow’ an Amazon van for the day) to pull off a large drop. [See further down in Caches for large item drops.] Suffice to say, make the item as common-place as possible to avoid detection of the transfer.
One idea for live drops is to plan ahead. For example, if the forecast is rain for the next three days, then arrange your drop outside. The target sits on a bench getting soaked. Informant walks by with an extra umbrella and graciously gives the umbrella to the soaked person. The drop is in the umbrella handle, the target then opens the umbrella, and gets up after a determined time after the informant leaves. It would be wise to come up with a handoff phrase that someone could not guess to ensure the correct target (if not known).Continue reading“Silent, Secure Communication – Part 2, by P.J.”

Today, we see a growing vulnerability of our communications and how they impact our short term, and long-term lives. With hacking on the rise, electronic protection systems growing more and more complex, Social media nannies, and increased reliance on foreign components (that may have embedded spyware) …Americans are starting to wake up to the thought “maybe what I am saying isn’t private anymore”. You would be correct, and this would hint that a total loss of freedoms of speech and of security of your person has occurred or isn’t far away.

Our liberties are eroding around us in America, and whether we can change the trajectory that our governance is taking us…we can still have some fun playing games. Hey – the military has war games, we can have some too. Today I would like to challenge you all to a game of hide-and-seek. Let me explain.

If you want to hide information that only you and another pre-approved party are privy to, then you need to have ways to conceal that information or encrypt it. Since encryption is not my strongest talent, I will elaborate on the means and methods that allow someone to physically hide and transfer information in a secret manner to minimize the risk of interception. This article will give you means and methods that let you keep your communications obscure and separated from the typical channels. Let’s dive in.

Disclaimer: This article IN NO WAY advocates or encourages criminal activity!

THE DELIVERY

Here are a couple ways that you can be your own James Bond for communications transfers:

Option 1: The Dead Drop

Channel your inner spy with the old classic dead drop. A dead drop is a note, jump drive, CD, signal, etc. that is left in a location that another pre-informed person is supposed to find covertly. The point of a dead drop is that you can transfer a bunch of information where the actual transfer between parties is not witnessed and where both parties are not at the drop point at the same time. This is classic spy tradecraft that you probably read in novels or seen in movies.Continue reading“Silent, Secure Communication – Part 1, by P.J.”