The Gig Economy of Espionage
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What if the person carrying out a sabotage operation isn’t a trained spy, but someone recruited online for a few hundred euros? On September 14, 2026, a fire broke out at an industrial site in Brașov, Romania, near a defense manufacturing facility. Weeks later, Romanian intelligence authorities announced that the fire had been deliberately set…
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