If you are mentioning the conversation with @jammi, I would suggest you look into the actual text of the conversation - at no point was any 'official permission' given to this, and he in fact mentions that it could be seen as 'cringey' and a breach of Roleplay Etiquette - which staff decided it was. @jammi is also a dev, and while he's a respected member of the team, he is not part of server rule enforcement.
Wild characters that are 'undercover' through exclusively using human tech and giving no indication of infection through any of their interactions with players are to be considered undercover - cloaked ships offer zero engagement or counterplay, which is why large developments stemming from cloaked stalking are considered a form of powergaming and staff reserves the right to moderate when the results are detrimental to the server. The same would happen if, like I mentioned before, that people decided to stalk DTR POB suppliers and alts to hunt them down and siege Elcano or Konpeki - it's a degree of metagaming that we don't want to see on the server.
Roleplay is about interaction, and if you enjoy politics and espionage roleplay, I would suggest you try doing it through interaction - and not through means that would require everyone to scan chatlists at all times for cloaked ships just to decide whether or not they can safely dock on their own bases when they think nobody else is around.
EDIT: I would also like to clarify that Barrier is part of the Event team, and also not able to decide the position of the enforcement team.
DOUBLE EDIT: I've seen the chatlogs from Barrier and made no mention about how any of this was fine, either.
