https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/150-humanoid-robot-house-cleaning-service-threatens-undercut-maid-services the KGB in the 1960s issued spy shoes with radio transmitters in the heel - a maid or personal assistant with access to the target's clothing was tasked with planting them.

10 Quirky Objects Spies Have Tried to Bug

10 Quirky Objects Spies Have Tried to Bug

information has commonly been stolen by individuals posing as cleaners or repairmen, gaining access to unattended computers. wikipedia lists cleaners alongside engineers and inspectors as classic cover identities for industrial espionage.

Industrial espionage - Wikipedia

iran's qajar-era khafiyehnegaran intelligence group had members who assumed the guise of maids, cleaners, and chefs.

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Iran’s Intelligence Apparatus from Past to Present: Institutional Process and Political Handicaps

The Iranian intelligence apparatus acquired an institutional structure in the modern period, particularly under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ...

the FBI's "parlor maid" case - katrina leung, codenamed "parlor maid," was a chinese spy who seduced two FBI agents over 20 years. the codename itself tells you how deeply the cleaner/domestic staff archetype is embedded in tradecraft.

"parlor Maid" - Chronology | From China With Love | FRONTLINE | PBS

now imagine that tradecraft automated, with lidar, cameras, and a cloud upload. gatsby isn't a cleaning service, it's a surveillance platform with a mop.

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fun fact: the bulgarian word for homosexual is pederast, and the serbocroatian word is peder. like so many words in southern slavic languages, the etymology is more honest and exact. a survey of gay men's origin stories will explain it to you if you don't want to take my or balkans and eastern european words for it.

a map of the best places to travel if you don't want to run into homo tourists darker = better

onchain zaps is the end of nostr for me. once the main apps are luring people to doxx their bitcoin wallet addresses both nostr and bitcoin are done. announcing insurge.net INSURGE - independent network of sovereign users relaying grid events this is going to be a tightly redesigned reboot of nostr based on email-style serialization pattern (double linebreak key sentinels with content delimited by sentinels with : after them). there is going to be no zaps. the cryptography is going to be my custom designed compact bethe lattice cryptosystem called Gnarl-Hamadryad (216 bit 27 byte secret and public keys, 432 bit 54 byte signatures - substantially smaller than elliptic curve schnorr signatures, but with at least equal post quantum shor algorithm resistance, potentially greater because of the non-euclidian lattice it is based on). i've also specced a monetary-only blockchain with prunable sidebranch topology that allows data but doesn't require it to be stored by nodes nor allow non-monetary transactions in the main, mandatory chain. also based on gnarl-hamadryad cryptography. i don't care if it's just me and 10 other users for some time and only one or three relays existing but it's gonna be done right. nostr and bitcoin are dead to me. they are now fedbook and fedcoin to me now.