Listen, do you want to know a secret?

ACTUALLY, it is an open secret. Embassies are listening posts. Not just for covert extracting of information but for open, paid means. Internet and satellite communications have overtaken the covert ways to get crucial information about a country where an embassy or consular post is situated. Some still resort to “humint,” or human intelligence — boots on the ground — whether nationals or citizens of the spying country or local accomplices, wittingly or not. The incident in early March this year of multiple Chinese nationals arrested together with local accomplices on suspicion of “gathering personal data and tracking devices while…