dannybuntu on Nostr: There's a mistaken notion that spooks are almost always - career spies or agents. In ...

There's a mistaken notion that spooks are almost always - career spies or agents. In reality, they could be anyone who could be blackmailed by an operator. So how then could we know?

Thus, a nuclear scientist in Tehran, who has family say, in the UK - could have his free will subverted with a threat to such family - unless some critical system is identified.

There are many gradations, money, sex, power - or blackmail.

We can’t just ask, ‘Hey, are you CIA?’ That’s not how it works. But game theory lets you watch how they play the game.

Like, who they follow, who follows them back, how fast they respond, what topics they post on — it's all strategic behavior. A regular dude’s just vibing online. But a spy?

He’s playing a long game. He’s trying to influence, deflect, or extract info. You can model that — set up incentive maps, simulate responses, test for weird patterns — it’s like building a psychological radar.

And if they’re all coordinated? Boom — multi-agent game theory. Like a shadow network with synchronized moves. Scary stuff, man.