Why is Ginger wearing a wire in Swordfish?

This is a follow up question to Why does Ginger use DEA as her cover in Swordfish?

Why is Ginger wearing a wire when Stan walks in on her getting dressed? The scene is played out to where it doesn't look like it was to setup Stan and get him to participate by feeding him the DEA story.

But, because I missed the DEA story in my previous question, I may be missing something here as well.

So, why is Ginger wearing a wire?

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Undercover DEA agents will certainly not bother locking the door whilst undressing, right? :) Of course it was planned and was a push to convince Stanley Jobson to give Gabriel the "worm" and not derail the plan in any way.

Ginger Knowles wearing the wire.

Ginger (while undressed): But it's not you we're after. It's Gabriel. So just give him the worm, take the money, and get the hell out of here. That's all you gotta do.

There really was no way for Gabriel to verify that the worm was actually genuine as he would have needed another hacker of Stan's calibre to do so. Ginger's wire play was therefore a psychological ploy to improve the odds in his favour.

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