Smoke:
Meet
Outside
Kill
Everyone

- Grand Boohbah XVI

First I distract myself by intentionally thinking about something else. Secondly, and here comes the irony, my mind starts an unconscious monitoring process to check if I’m still thinking about the thing I’m not supposed to be thinking about – you know, to check if the conscious process is working or not.

- Why Thought Suppression is Counter-Productive
at PsyBlog

Call them spooks, black-bag operators, whitehats, covert-entry men. You can’t call them anything else, because the people who run security for federal agencies don’t wear uniforms or name tags.

They don’t introduce themselves, and they never, ever speak on the record.

When they meet, it’s by personal invitation in rented rooms stocked with Styrofoam cups and nondairy creamer.

Theirs is a universe of complete secrecy and total deniability, of national secrets and nuclear footballs, clothed in the anonymity of Dockers and Ecco walkers.

- The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
by Charles Graeber for Wired.com