Lessons in Spying – Fooling the NSA

When the NSA whistleblower story broke, I sent a quick email to Le French Book’s very own spying specialist, Bernard Besson. He’s a former French intelligence official, a top-of-the-line economic intelligence master, and he writes good fiction books.

“What do you think?” I asked. And he gave me a quick lesson in spying.

Every intelligence service in the world tries to intercept communications of all kinds. This has been the case for centuries. The NSA has been working with US allies for years...