Predator, Prey, and Not Playing Fair

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Good surveillance can operate right under your nose without you even knowing they are there. And even though your tail may have all the advantages, you have one powerful tool that can flip the odds in your favor. In this episode, Andrew teaches you how spies beat surveillance in the field and how you can use the same skill to beat your opponents in everyday life.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
0:23.6	If you get illegal,
0:26.6	it's illegal everywhere in every country, under every
0:34.6	law, in every corner of the world.
0:37.9	If you get caught stealing secrets from a government or a corporation or even an individual,
0:44.1	local police have the grounds to arrest you.
0:48.2	And in most parts of the world, police custody is not very comfortable.
0:52.5	So operators put a lot of time, planning, and effort into something
0:57.7	we call surveillance detection. In the surveillance game, there are two sides. The people surveilling,
1:04.7	we call those people the tail, and the person being followed. We call that person the rabbits.
1:10.6	And the surveillance game is not fair.
1:14.5	The tail has all the advantages. They have more people, more tech, more support. But the rabbit has one powerful tool on their side.
1:24.7	The surveillance detection route, or what we call an SDR.
1:29.9	SDRs happen on foot, in cars, on bicycles, public transit, pretty much anywhere you can find
1:36.4	people moving.
1:37.6	And that's because the secret sauce to spotting your tail is to force your surveillance
1:43.8	out from wherever they are hiding.
1:46.6	This is the key to all surveillance detection.
1:49.7	You have to take deliberate actions that force your opponent out of the shadows and into your
1:56.8	sight. If you don't force them to move, then they're going to remain invisible to you,
2:02.8	and they will keep their advantage. Now, CIA taught me surveillance detection in 2008, and I loved
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