On: Ohio cryptic lineage update

[whinenot]

Putin already does this.[0]. He doesn't want adversaries to know what drugs he's taking (presumably for cancer).

[0]https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Poutine-malade...

[dendrite9 → whinenot]

There may have learned a lesson from Stalin.

"According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special department to get its hands on people's faeces.

The ambitious aim: to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools.

In other words, espionage via excrement."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35427926

[netsharc → dendrite9]

I remember saying that the Secret Service has a sophisticated portable toilet for the president to use when he's travelling, but the only source I could find was some conspiracy website. (I found it during the Bush II administration, so it's either gone from the Internet, or Google has probably lost it)