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[epimethean]

Survey time!

I need a few reasonably intelligent individuals who can take direction and know how to not be idiots on the internet. Raise your hand if you know how to not be an idiot on the internet! Great! I'd like your help with a thing that may or may not involve the recent interrogations and the results of said interrogations. Fill this out:

<b>Name:</b> I don't really care if you use an alias; I just need something to call you. Don't screw with me because I'll know. <b>Age:</b> No teenagers with attitude, please, the entire point of this is to not be an idiot on the internet. <b>Are you a frequent user of social networks?</b> Yes/No <b>Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology?</b> Yes/No, elaborate if necessary. <b>Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet:</b> No hints.

That's it, that's all you have to do! Easy, right? Also, if anyone has any knowledge of how much technological fire/brainpower the "enemy" is packing (i.e. do they employ hackers!? How good are the hackers?! etc. etc.), that's a thing I'd like to know.

I'm sure there are some of you who might find this incredibly vague and possibly suspicious, so hello, I'm Wheatley, I've been on this network for a few months now and I haven't done anything stupid with regards to keeping it a secret. I do computer things, if anyone ever needs any computer things.

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[cava]

... I can hardly claim I expected to find you here.

[what did he do to deserve this]

Name: Cain
Age: 24
Are you a frequent user of social networks? Yes
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? With years' practice in programming and a bachelor's in computer science, I should certainly hope so.
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: An intermediary server. meant to reroute a connection and obscure/falsify/etc the location of the user. Hardly difficult.

[reapsthewind]

Name: starscream
Age: 28
Are you a frequent user of social networks? y
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? y
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: it's a server that you route your stuff through to hide yourself from the authorities duh

[epimethean]

[OH HEY it's the new guy. HEY NEW GUY.]

Yeah, you're in, I'm just trying to weed out the people who think a disc drive is a cup holder.

I'm sure you read about the bloke who got away from the cops provided he give some names, yeah? He's going to give them some fake names and we're going to give the fake names an online presence. It's not the most effective course of action but it might buy us a little bit of time to figure out a plan B.

[epimethean]

Don't get too excited, I doubt this is going to be a very effective project but I'm looking to create a sort of safety net of fake online personas so people can give fake names to the cops if they get themselves in trouble. It'll probably only work a few times before they catch on, depending, but the more convincing we can make it, the more time we could potentially buy ourselves and the unfortunate sods who get caught.

[reapsthewind]

mmm

do we know anyone into natural language processing? could set up something to auto-generate legit-sounding posts

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[italktofish]

Name: ARTHUR CURRY
Age: I AM 37 NO NEED TO LIE ABOUT MY AGE
Are you a frequent user of social networks? I HAVE A FACEBOOK THAT I USE TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH GRANNY CURRY
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? I CAN USE THE MICROWAVE AND IT WON'T BLOW UP AND ALSO I HAVE THIS NEAT LITTLE DANCING PURPLE MONKEY ON MY COMPUTER
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: IS THAT SOME SORT OF PIMPLE CREAM I DON'T UNDERSTAND

[epimethean]

Arthur I appreciate your enthusiasm but I'm not sure your brand of outrageous is right for this project.

I could teach you more about computers if you wanted to learn, though?

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[synonymouswithdookie]

Not gonna lie, I kinda wanna see what kind of amazing facebook pages the fish guy can churn out.

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[hawaiianheir]

Name: Zephyr
Age: 20
Are you a frequent user of social networks? fb is shit but i know how to use it
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? compsci so y
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: intermediary server, used to hide yourself from cops and get around work filters of less-than-reputable sites.

[epimethean]

Not that I've met. Then again, I haven't exactly run into many computer-types here. I don't suppose you know any?

In the meantime I'll try and write something up.

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[honestopinion]

Name: Jamie
Age: 18
Are you a frequent user of social networks? Yeah, somethingawful and cracked.
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? Duh.
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: Yeah, I know what a proxy is. You need one for "special" downloads.

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[epimethean]

I admit to being--to being morbidly curious, but I'm not sure now's the time to be taking unnecessary risks.

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[epimethean]

[oh my god he's found the goons]

I'm going to need an actual definition, if that's okay.

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[honestopinion]

The actual definition of a "special" download?
Don't worry, I'm not an idiot.
I can totally tell this is a test and "I don't know what you're talking about, officer"

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[stagnantair]

Name: Gavin
Age: 27
Are you a frequent user of social networks?
I used to have Facebook but I don't use it anymore, besides talking to my aunt. I use 4chan and .onion sites, mostly.
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology?
Yeah, I'd say so. I'm no hacker, but I know my way around routing technology and using programmes for encryptions.
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: It's basically a zip code.

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[synonymouswithdookie]

Damn. You're right.


...Maybe just one page.

[epimethean]

Right answer, good job. We're making fake internet personas.

[epimethean]

The definition of "proxy", actually. I'm looking for something a little more detailed than "it's a thing you use to do this other thing".

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[originaloddcouple]

Name: Isaac Dian
Age: 31
Are you a frequent user of social networks? Yes! This counts, right?
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? Sort of? I understand how my phone works!
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: Someone that completes things in someone else's place!

[originaloddcouple]

Name: Miria Dian
Age: 32
Are you a frequent user of social networks? Sometimes! I just visit them every now and then. But I come here a lot.
Do you consider yourself well-versed in technology? Kind of? Isaac set up the internet stuff, but I installed all sorts of things.
Define 'proxy' in the context of not being an idiot on the internet: A substitute for someone.

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[epimethean]

Not exactly, you might be thinking of an IP address in very loose terms, but if you know routing and encryptions you can probably help. We're looking to drum up some fake internet personas to fake out the cops.

[stagnantair]

Yeah, then it's a fake zip code is what I meant.

Layer them up and no one can find you.

[stagnantair]

I'd totally be up for that, though. What do you need?

[honestopinion]

OH! Oh, you mean proxy not what I download (good because that would be creepy.)

Well, okay so short definition: what you use to get on youtube at school.
long definition: if you're trolling someone really smart you need at least 3+ proxies because they will get your IP and exploit you. They are like, ah, like internet walls.

And if your victim is like "I'm going to IP search you, troll" just be like "Try it fucker, I'm behind 10 proxies." Feels great.

I don't have to use proxies on Alan or anything because he's a super dumbass.

[epimethean]

That would be the OED definition of proxy! Looking for what it means in the computer world, unfortunately. I can teach you, if you like.