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This could make for a great front. Someone with such a meticulous personality could probably produce, for example, a well-documented "business trip" that is a complete lie, while engaging in something completely different behind the scenes. If designed right it would be nearly impossible to detect.

Or maybe I've just watched too many spy movies.



This was my exact thought too. In fact, I would go out of my way to fabricate a tiny but measurable percentage of the data, just to see what I could convincingly fake and to give me plausible deniability for any of the real stuff, just in case. In the event that I ever found it necessary to do something shady for whatever reason, I'd have a lot of practice masking it.

...Or maybe I've also just watched too many spy movies.


How would you know how much of the fiction was "convincingly fake" and how much was "blatantly fake" until they decided to come after you?


Well guys, there's only one way to find out...




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