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    About the virus, but I had to laugh

    Hoax text 'from COVIDSafe app' claims to track users

    In OZ "A hoax text message claiming to come from the government's newly launched coronavirus app is circulating online."

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    Naughty, but they do have a sense of humour.

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    Whose phone#? I'm not following the humour.

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    Maybe that it's a hoax?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Femme* View Post
    Maybe that it's a hoax?
    Or it will flood them with so many useless calls that they can't handle them all?

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Or it will flood them with so many useless calls that they can't handle them all?
    maybe it's a false number?
    or flooding was the intent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Or it will flood them with so many useless calls that they can't handle them all?
    Yes. At some point the the antidote to surveillance will be to use adversarial data.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Yes. At some point the the antidote to surveillance will be to use adversarial data.
    That's difficult to do because they treat it as noise and are good at filtering it out. It would take massive amounts across the spectrum of data.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    That's difficult to do because they treat it as noise and are good at filtering it out. It would take massive amounts across the spectrum of data.
    It's not hard at all to dirty up data streams. It just takes volume.

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    Asking citizens to snitch on other citizens never seems to work out very well. The federal government has been doing it for years, maintaining "See Something, Say Something" hotlines that have mostly collected tips from people concerned about what their browner neighbors are doing. The same thing happens in the private sector. Ring's proprietary app -- Neighbors -- collects the same sort of garbage, empowering bigots to feel like they're acting on behalf of the common good.

    With lockdown orders in effect and social distancing rules in place in several cities and states around the country, local governments are asking residents to pitch in with enforcement efforts by reporting those who are breaking the rules. New York City opened a tip line for reports of social distancing violators and collected a bunch of Hitler-related memes, videos of the mayor going to the gym, extended middle fingers, and dick pics instead.

    The state of Ohio is asking for the same trouble. Its unemployment fraud portal is supposed to collect reports from businesses about employees of theirs that are collecting unemployment rather than coming into work. Some employees are opting out of potential infection when employers haven't shown the willingness to protect them by enforcing social distancing rules and/or providing them with personal protective equipment.

    The state is now going to have to sift through a whole lot of algorithmically-generated crap to find genuine reports of work shirkers, thanks to the efforts of one anonymous coder.
    Ohio Government Asks Companies To Snitch On Employees, Gets Hit With Auto-Generated Bogus 'Tips' Instead | Techdirt

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    John, if I'm reading your posts rightly, if it's possible, we might consider doing a lot of the write in just to give them more to sort through, not necessarily to get them to see our point. We can cause a bit more chaos for them, and maybe a headache or 2.

    I like that idea! am I reading it correctly?

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