The spy trick of creating an email account, writing text in an email, then saving it to the draft folder to be opened by another spy has been around a while. But now it has a name. "Foldering." Here's the Wall Street Journal with ‘Foldering’: In the Manafort Case, an Old Spy Trick Enters the Digital Age. Excerpt:
While digital dead-dropping has been reported to be a favored tactic in terrorist cells (as depicted on screen in the 2008 spy thriller “Traitor”), the most famous example prior to Mr. Manafort came to light in 2012, when F.B.I. agents uncovered secret messages shared between David Petraeus, then the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and his biographer Paula Broadwell. As The Wall Street Journal reported at the time, Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell were discovered to be using “the draft-email trick.”
The introduction of a single word, “foldering,” to label this practice is handy shorthand. Whether the technique will offer refuge from the digital police is another question.
I would have called it a "Draft Dodge." That could cause some confusion, but isn't that one of a spy's objectives?
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3:21 PM 6/26/2018
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