What they need is for the site to randomly generate a more unique phrase for each person that loads the page.
Basically, come up with a list of trigger words and then work them into innocuous sections of text in a random manner. That way "they" can't filter out the text being sent.
We can do one better. Why don't the site just run that through google translate and we just play it back. Yeah that sounds better. The pronunciation would work quite well for the speech recognizer.
So doing the basic math in my head, the chance that this will succeed is... trolltastic (means like 0, since even if it has a chance of succeeding, they could ignore all phone calls from that one hour, also if this is written well, and scalable they can just spin up more workers -- so unless you can get like 20 billion phone calls I doubt it'll be an issue)!
Yea, that sounds quite obvious right? If the supposed fake hate speech is a constant then all they have to do is put an if statement somewhere to make an exception about this specific email.
Yep, seems like an easy thing to bypass. Might be better to search for these keywords within tweets or fb updates and create a script based on that (re-scrape every x users so that it changes).
Who comes up with these? Do you really think they won't check the sha of that text against something? Imagine the 100 billion dollars of "Buy boner pills @ onlinepharmacy.ru" type emails which make the 68.6% of all the email sent worldwide, do they really think that they can top that?
if (mail.sha == "6ead421c0d8c4e36dbe5c4f5b2f14d93fa634da65f024f6440e4cafc13e7d0e4")
irs_audit(mail.sender);
This seems like a joke that got overdone - I can imagine someone saying 'hey it would be funny if the whole world emailed each suspicious shit to troll the NSA' across a dinner table but any more than that and it stops being funny
Is this really relevant to HN? There's nothing of substance in the content at all.
Reddit is a much more relevant platform for mildly interesting stuff that's happening on the internet. I wish the mods would be more aggressive with moderating submissions.
This "operation," is just ridiculous and childish, and worst case say it could actually pose a risk...I'm definitely a supporter of privacy, just closing ur facebook, using linux, and turning off your phone during precious conversations (reducing ur digital footprint)...that will do more than creating an unnecessary risk like this.
There's no evidence to the contrary, and Apple was named in the PRISM scandal, so you have to operate under the assumption that it is. Sell it and buy a non-smartphone with a removable battery.
That type of spying capability is implemented in the telephony baseband. It is commanded using the signalling channel of telephony protocols. Whether or not it is in a particular device depends on the chips that connect to the telephone network.
I agree, it does seem somewhat silly and is akin to complaining about how rape cases are handeled by everybody going out and crying rape. Wont fix rapes, wont solve rapes, will make it harder to see real rapes taking place.
With that if this event takes place and somebody dies due to intel not being obvious due to the amount of troll/spam then would those instigating the troll/spam and those partaking in it be as guilty of the crime that was not stopped.
Certainly not a impossible situation and with that I sure would not wont to be responsible impossing detrement against another, even if the intentions were good, the approach is wrong.
Basically, come up with a list of trigger words and then work them into innocuous sections of text in a random manner. That way "they" can't filter out the text being sent.