Because religious vocabulary, etiquette, and clothing are learned from decades of involvement usually as a small child.
It’s kind of like saying you’re going to pretend to be a different class, but more particular.
> I have pretended to be multiple kinds of Christian with success
I don’t know what context you mean. But I guarantee others can tell you aren’t a member of the group even if Christianity aims to be open in inviting new people.
Another common situation is they recognize you have some connection but can tell you aren’t an active participant.
Harder to pretend when speaking with colleagues that are the real deal. Also very likely to "step out of line" accidentally over time as lot of time is spent with colleagues.
It's not hard to pretend to be anything for 5 minutes to someone who doesn't know anything about what you're doing.
Naively, I was assuming TSMC would still operate like TSMC, not the Taliban, and that they'd focus on doing their work, not religious performance, but I guess anything is possible!
Suggesting TSMC start operating like the Taliban to protect their trade secrets seems like an obviously bad idea, though.
But we don't live in a vacuum, so I guess it's all just opinion pieces.
Okay, substitute Taliban for the Church of Scientology or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
It's a marginally less absurd proposal.
My point stands.
Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure to deal with espionage 1) would be minimally effective (see the IDF infiltrating Hamas and Iran regularly), and 2) is ridiculous.
