I love a good spy story. It's so intriguing for me to think that someone among us might

not be who we think they are. They're faking their name, their background, and their purpose,

trying to get information of some kind. And it's always interesting to see what kind of methods

these people use to communicate, right in plain sight, but to the untrained eye, you have no idea

that a message is being sent. Like, for instance, there's been times when spies would tie their

shoelaces in a specific way to communicate certain things. So like if your shoelaces had extra

knots in them, it could mean something like don't approach me, or if the shoe was tied with

laces crossed over it or under it, that might mean, okay, all clear, come give me the message.

Or maybe if the shoe was untied, it means you've been spotted, get out. And what's cool about

this trick is you can have one message on one shoe and a different message on another. This way,

the person could send a different message depending on the situation. Like if one shoe said,

wait, and the other shoe said, all clear, the person could just put out their shoe that had the

right message on it at the time and cover up the other shoe somehow, like by sitting on it or

something. I love hearing about spy tricks and methods that they call trade craft. And in this

episode, we'll hear a story about a spy and how they operate.

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

I'm Jack Recyder. This is Dark Net Diaries.

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