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Unsolicited Cigars: A forensic history of material subversion, diplomatic sabotage and the birth of digital zero-trust networks

Unsolicited Cigars: A forensic history of material subversion, diplomatic sabotage and the birth of digital zero-trust networks

Spaxman, Andrew J.

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Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798199192644
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Nobody suspects a gift. For centuries, offering an unsolicited luxury item was the universal currency of high diplomacy, backroom networking, and international hospitality. To share a rare, hand-rolled cigar with a colleague or a foreign dignitary was a sacred gesture of mutual courtesy.

Unsolicited Cigars declassifies a gripping history where premium tobacco was systematically weaponized by global intelligence agencies (MI5, the CIA, and the KGB) as a physical vector for surveillance, assassination, and soft-power bribery. Crucially, the book operates on a dual-track narrative structure: every historical vignette acts as the direct architectural precursor to a critical concept on the modern digital battlefield. The physical poison pills and bugged cedar humidors of the Cold War are exposed as the literal blueprints for the hardware interdiction, supply chain hacks, and automated paranoia that define twenty-first-century silicon warfare.

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