Reputation in the dark

[ by Charles Cameron — Towards a Pattern Language for CT II ]

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A tip-of-the-hat to Mercutio for pointing me towards Diego Gambetta‘s Codes of the underworld: how criminals communicate in a comment here on ZP today. I went off to see what snippets of Gambetta I might find — and ran across a paragraph which sent me in search of another that I’d read earlier this week, and which I finally located (after devious detective work) in Lawrence Wright‘s summation of the situation with regard to Pakistan.

There’s a pattern here, and it has to do with the assaying of reputation under, shall we say, precarious circumstances?

You may recall my post of two weeks ago, Towards a Pattern Language for CT? — well, this can be the second in the series.