I can only imagine. Even in my lifetime, things have changed a lot—it's gotten a lot harder to vanish.
[In forty years, what being a spy looks like has changed so much. Information that used to be inaccessible or difficult to obtain was now a few keystrokes away and every single person is suddenly carrying cameras and communication tools in their pocket.
In a lot of cases they're taking the pictures spies used to engineer for weeks to get themselves, so all you need to do is access their phone.
On the other hand, that access was a two edged sword.]
I suppose no one can ever stop you from just walking out into the steppes.
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[In forty years, what being a spy looks like has changed so much. Information that used to be inaccessible or difficult to obtain was now a few keystrokes away and every single person is suddenly carrying cameras and communication tools in their pocket.
In a lot of cases they're taking the pictures spies used to engineer for weeks to get themselves, so all you need to do is access their phone.
On the other hand, that access was a two edged sword.]
I suppose no one can ever stop you from just walking out into the steppes.