“First off, this is 100 percent a target-rich environment,” Hurd told me. At the Aspen Security Forum, “you have people who are intimately involved in setting national security policy, so when you have this concentration of people involved in the industry, it's always a good target, so people should be careful about the conversations they're having, whether it's in a taxi or an Uber or at a restaurant. Because I would not be surprised if there were folks that were interested in trying to overhear what was going on here or make contact.”
On our last night at the conference, Shane and I called an Uber to take us into to town for drinks at a journalist's house. Not totally to our surprise, the driver Uber selected for us was Gloria.
“How aaaaare you?” she sang again as we greeted her.
“So what's going on?” she asked before we'd even closed the car doors. “What are people saying about North Korea?”
“Well,” Shane said, “it seems like people don't really know that much of what's going on there. But you've been to North Korea, right?”
Gloria's heavy silence was interrupted only by the bloop-bloop-bloop of her phone's notification system.
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