The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn’t think they’re being followed. This is how I learned to follow people, and over the course of an entire school year, I learned fascinating secrets about complete strangers I followed for hours on end. It made me wonder who knew my secrets, on the days I thought I was walking with no one behind me.
-- Lemony Snicket, All The Wrong Questions, Book 2, When Did You See Her Last?, Chapter Seven
But how would I distinguish ‘no one has been following me and so I did not notice no one has been following me’ from ‘someone has followed me at some point and I did not notice that they were following me’?
-- Lemony Snicket, All The Wrong Questions, Book 2, When Did You See Her Last?, Chapter Seven
Does that actually work?
Ask yourself whether you’d notice someone following you when you weren’t looking out for it.
The part that impressed me and led me to post it was the whole “X applies to everyone else, hmm maybe it applies to me too” idea.
But how would I distinguish ‘no one has been following me and so I did not notice no one has been following me’ from ‘someone has followed me at some point and I did not notice that they were following me’?
No.