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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Lex Fridman Podcast
Social Engineering
I learned most of my trade craft and skill craft from panhandlers and street performers. When I had some training related to social engineering, those were the people that I learned from. If you want a quick way of having somebody out there try and stop talking to you, you can start talking about Jesus in the middle of a little cartel territory when they approach you. That'll quickly de-escalate. So what I usually refer to do is I find somebody from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and beat them up in front of the... "That's to send a signal to the journalists," he says.
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