@judgedread Apparently, I'm crippled in the absence of Pleroma displaying the filenames above the attachments; apparently it doesn't even occur to me to write down things that are conveyed by the filename.
That is the_mkultra_hits.webm and I think this explains the file perfectly.
> I truly thought most people on here had some form of a sandbox set up for safe viewing of threat material from threat vectors that monitor for IoT.
The chudbuds.lol admin got her tax returns and divorce filings and child support payments and everything down to photos from the hospital of her new husband's dick injury, all posted online. She ran an instance with 2100 active users ( http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/chudbuds.lol ) on it, and she used the same Windows computer to administer that machine, handle business, do her Twitch streaming, and also install RAT tools disguised as Minecraft mods. I am not sure what qualifies as "most people" but I think people that are remotely careful about anything are vanishingly rare. Most people don't really have a reason (although in Claire's case, installing a random executable on the computer she used for everything while also acting as an admin for a very noisy instance is possibly the biggest mismatch between how careful someone should be and how careful they are).
> ( don’t click links) (don’t open rando pdf’s)
In thus case, it's a known domain belonging to a regular site and it's an academic PDF and we're not at "don't click links" threat-levels yet. That's Gab levels of of "What if they find my IP address?" paranoia. It's just shitty people publishing an academic dry-hump. It's not a thing to worry about. Tor's sufficient for now.
@lpheathen2@judgedread Well, yeah, but I'm unreasonably paranoid and I still think "Don't click a link" is a bit much. It's like the threat model is too vague and ill-defined, and when the alarms go off over everything, it's easy for the actual threat to sneak past.
@Hyolobrika I have the screenshot they sent me and when FSE is back up, I will have the link there, but the original post was removed from sneed.social and sneed.social is itself gone now.
> on another note, police do go through social media feeds manually. They even have dedicated tools for it like this one https://www.hunch.ly/
Yes. I put in a bid with a company that was building one for ISIS Twitter accounts a long, long time back, when that kind of thing didn't make me projectile-vomit immediately. Then there's this company down in Orange County that uses Elixir to do automatic transcription and keyword search of phone calls made from prison: https://leotechnologies.com/careers/ . There are a million like this.
> Think about the average case police deal with.
Regular cops and the Secret Service are very different.
> I fail to see why there would be any need to waste resources contacting and waiting for facebook in a case like that.
Sure, that's local cops, though. They are investigating different things than the Secret Service and for different reasons and with different staff. The FBI is closer to local law enforcement than the Secret Service, but the FBI has a direct pipe, they just ask and receive.
@RustyCrab@Vaghrad@cassidyclown@creamqueen@mint If this post sounds like I missed something, it's because rustc ate all of the RAM and angered Firefox and I'm typing from memory because Rust has the dumbest goddamn compiler and it shits crates into your home directory because it apparently hates when builds are self-contained because it is an idiot and I'm going to go throttle the team behind librsvg.
> Also somebody else probably scrubbed his timeline and sent it to them as a tip.
That's more plausible.
> a lot less effort than contacting somebody in Australia.
You keep saying that like it's more effort to email someone in Australia than it is to email someone locally.
> Also my friend involved in LE says police call people all the time. They come knocking if they can't get hold of you. It probably depends if they think you're a flight risk or a genuine threat.
I don't know the extent of your friend's involvement, but even local cops don't call if they have a problem with something you're doing, they just come find you. I've never seen them call to threaten someone, and I've never even *heard* of the Secret Service doing that.
But that's not the big deal. The point at which I said there's no chance they were the Secret Service was the weird internet-style threat. They don't just call and threaten you with various and sundry, not if they want to keep *their* jobs. If they're going to make a threat, it's not "We'll call your job and tell them you're being racist on the internet!", it's about maximum sentences and how, unlike states, federal sentences don't come with early parole. "We're gonna call your boss!" is something people say (or do) when they are mad at someone on the internet, the type of threat made by people that don't have the authority to get you arrested, and it's basically calculated to play directly into that specific worry. If a cop threatens to beat you up and steal your meth, is that guy probably an actual cop or a meth addict? (Hint: the real cop will just steal your meth and pretend he didn't see it.)
@mint@realman543@Vaghrad@Inginsub@RustyCrab@cassidyclown@creamqueen A few years back there was a guy in Riverside that put red and blue lights and a siren on his car, just hung out in gas stations in the desert until he spotted a lady, then pulled the car over and did rapes. His car didn't even look like a cop car, just you can't tell at night. After the news hit, I imagine the Riverside County Sheriff's Department had a harder time getting people to pull over for busted tail lights.
@FailurePersonified@judgedread The paper is pretty stupid so far. I have just read a paragraph that says that the thing people on Stormfront are unified about is white supremacy despite many other topics being discussed, with the implication that white supremacy just sort of snuck in and took over, captivating the hearts and minds, instead of an interest in that topic being the reason people go there to begin with because that's what they put on the sign. She cites three papers to say the equivalent of "People visiting McDonald's are all interested in burgers for some reason!"
@mint@Vaghrad@RustyCrab@cassidyclown@creamqueen@Inginsub I didn't claim to be an expert, but I would have said the same thing before the FBI emailed me, because I didn't make the remarks based on that one incident, that's just the incident people asked about.
You could reason it out for nothing: it's easy to spoof a number, nobody makes a threat unless they want to compel you without having to do anything, nobody makes a smaller threat than they could plausibly make, and this matches the "dumb kids on internet playing mind games" M.O. perfectly. Why would the Secret goddamn Service say "We'll call your job and tell them you were racist!" instead of "We'll haul you in front of a DOJ prosecutor"? And I'd like to see one--one!--example where the Secret Service did this. The cops don't even do this, but the Secret Service is not a department that complains about budget shortfalls, and they have a habit of popping into people's houses unexpectedly.
brb the kgb has just sent me some dms on discord telling me that they saw me post that article about putin having autism and INGINSUB IS NOT AN EXPERT, HE CAN'T PROVE THAT THE KGB DOESN'T SEND PEOPLE DMS ON DISCORD
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