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Traitor
2008 · Film · 114 min
Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
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Screw email and VOIP servers. In the movie Traitor, one person would compose an email and then save it to the draft folder. Then the other person would login to the same Webmail account and read the draft message. Since the message is never sent over the wire, there's no need for secure email (only SSL for the email client).
I remember watching the movie "Traitor" a few years back and wondering if Al Qaida used something similar to what the fictional terrorists were using in that movie.
(From what I remember, they were merely writing messages and saving them as drafts. Then others would log on and read the drafts. No emails were sent.)
Interesting though how much he relied on couriers.
Looking at the map for my city of residence (Atlanta) confirms a pattern I've observed in real life: the black community generally will support its own, seemingly regardless of the details of the performance.
Look at the patterns for The Soloist (Jamie Foxx), Lakeview Terrace (Samuel L. Jackson), Traitor (Don Cheadle), Obsessed (Beyonce), and the Tyler Perry movies. These movies have little to nothing in common, and their Metacritic scores vary widely, yet their distribution maps are essentially identical.
A further point of interest: judging by these patterns, Atlanta really is as segregated as it is often made out to be. The only other city that I noticed with such stark contrast was D.C., which I've heard is another heavily segregated city (at least culturally).