You know the type. High security, weeks or months of stakeout, sniper three blocks away…
The hitman sorta things I recall from the news are either planned and executed by national intelligence agents or some savage gunning and running from hired brutes, but never the variant with sophistication and private sector.
It's still unknown who did this hit, but the story itself and a mass of speculations are very interesting:
https://unresolved.me/lake-city-quiet-pills
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh
Thanks for that rabbit hole. Interesting. It would make sense for a clever and reasonably tech savvy person at that time to put messages in the HTML thinking it would be sufficiently hidden, and to come up with the strategy to mask business traffic from casual traffic by being an overly popular image host. Then again, people in some sort of intelligence biz that use terminology of secure data storage should also know that obscurity is not not security. If it's a LARP, it is an ambitious one, but people that are armchair military do have a weird mindset of their own.
I just discovered unresolved.me thanks to your post, thank you Internet stranger!
Just like I did, and you can pass this torch to the next person too (:
Lake city quiet pills is wild. Barely sociable has a video on YouTube about it.