It would have been stuff taken from” The spy who came in from the cold.”
For three months now, I have lived in the alley behind the local police station.
My big brother would have fainted just to learn about it.
He is a pharmacist, retiring, but still goes to work per diem.
He was drafted during the Vietnam War, like everyone else. But he only stationed in town, to teach a class in Medical Tech (X ray machines etc..)
He would never come back, would never hang out in the alley.
I even wanted to trade place with one of the guys in passing. Would you let me have your place, with you going to CA, and me staying here.
The guy politely declined, or brushed it off.
Times has changed!
This side of the curtain has mostly old files, not yet digitized.
People are in a hurry to consume and to spend.
It has been mild lately. Some people caught a cold.
It would be a funny movie to show a spy who caught a cold, instead of coming from the cold.
Now, we got virus, but from Iran, as they attack data centers.
Try to wake up to a different world. A connected one. And in it, most of the truths and threats we once held as absolutes, have become irrelevant. Yesterday’s fear should not hold us hostage today. I am just holding up the mirror : modernity infects everyone on both sides.
Technology is agnostic. Now, instead of iron curtain, we got firewalls.
Instead of flu virus, we got Iran-originated virus.
John Le Carre or James Bond, all need to update their software version.
Sometimes the virus is in us. Our James Bond character finds himself recede into the dark corner of his own.
We are the bad guys as well. Just didn’t realize it.
Until someone shows us who we truly are. Mr Bond, tear down that curtain.
Thang Nguyen 555 