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How to Become a Supervillain
plasmastate writes "Learn German. Proceed to SuPerVillainizer. Launch the SuPer Villainizer Conspiracy Client V 0.9 Beta. Join selected conspiracy. Proceed to Terrorism Information Awareness. Savor sweet, sweet irony." Send us a postcard from Guantanamo Bay.
I thought the quickest way to become a supervillan was to send out SPAM.
Someone hates these cans.
1) Slashdot other SuperVillain's servers.
2) ?
3) Profit!
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Why would learning german be a prerequisite (or even something helpful) for becoming a supervillain?
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Flash! Could there be greater proof of their villainy?
Seriously, though, while I'm skeptical of many of the actions taken in pursuit of national security, and critical of quite a few of them, bragging about "ridiculing the notions of "the enemy" or the "bad guy"" comes across to me as evidence of utter stupidity on the part of the Villainizer guys.
Obviously, there's tremendous subjectivity about right and wrong, but smirking about your contempt anyone who talks about "bad guys" is idiocy that's all the stupider for its pretensions of cleverness.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
The following is from http://www.supervillainizer.ch/index.php?theory=1
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About the Project
Since and even well before the 11th of September laws have been passed in the United States and in Europe, that permit certain nations to keep all e-mail traffic under close surveillance. This has also happened in Switzerland. For more than a year now, Swiss providers have been required by law to retain telecommunications data for six months and if required by a judge to arrange the real-time interception of the email communication of their customers. It is the consequence of these advanced surveillance practices that the question is no longer: Who? Where? What? But: What not? Fears are being fueled and "enemy" profiles established.
SuPerVillainizer is an interactive web project aimed against the establishment of these enemy profiles that these data retention surveillance scenarios are based on. Through the generating of artificial villains, SuPerVillainizer ist questioning the prevalent notion of "friend" and "enemy: SuPerVillainizer is about creating profiles of villains, rogues, bad guys, and scapegoats, equipping them with real email accounts at a Swiss provider, uniting them into conspiracies, and then watching as the villains start to automatically communicate with each other using SuPerVillainizer-generated conspiracy content, infiltrating the carefully planned surveillance system with more and more disinfoming mails every day. This conspiracy mail content can be influenced, the conspiracy language chosen.
Because real email accounts at a real Swiss provider are being generated, and real mails are being sent using several SMTP-servers, the game is taking place in reality . This opens up the possiblility of real consequences should the authorities fall for the fictional content or the real conspiratorial connections between the accounts. Moreover, this conspiratorial email traffic is not to be limited to Switzerland only: concerned email-users can "donate" the email accounts they do not want to use (anymore). The accounts are integrated into the conspiracies and should be set to "AutoReply" if possible, so that an automated dialogue between the conspiring villains and the donated account evolves.
It is the goal of the project to render the aforementioned enemy profiles obsolete. The world does not consist only of good and evil like we some people would like us to believe (example: "War on Terrorism"). SuPerVillainizer calls concerned people to act against this inadequate personalization (friend/enemy) and against the predominant black-and-white-thinking: many "enemy"-profiles coexist in the SuPerVillainizer environment: everyone can potentially become a villain: Bush conspires with Osama Binladen a member of the Swiss federal council plots to contaminate water supplies together with Saddam Hussein. Everyone can declare themselves "SuPerVillains" and join a conspiracy. Here, the surveillance-system is being rendered absurd because it actually assumes that everybody is a potential criminal.
SuPerVillainizer is a webtool like its predecessor TraceNoizer - Disinformation on Demand (http://www.tracenoizer.org. TraceNoizer permits the clouding of one's own identity on the net and therefore provides the individual with an individual strategy against electronic surveillance. SuPerVillainizer on the other hand is a tool for collective use à a collective strategy in dealing with electronic surveillance: all information is freely accessible (no passwords), all villain profiles ever entered are re-useable and a database of keywords and sentences (so-called "Trigger Words") are compiled collectively which are then integrated into the emails sent by SuPerVillainizer to divert and confuse Echelon & Co.
Design
SuPerVillainizer is designed to resemble an email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, which most computer users have installed on their machine to send and receive emails.
Emailing is an every-day task for most Europeans, used
If I understand this correctly, the aim of this project is to provide enough false positives that any authorities snooping the Internet will give up on using such surveillance as a method of catching real bad guys. Do the idiots who dreamt this up understand that there actually ARE real bad guys out there?
If you don't want someone snooping your mail or online activities, then use encryption. But deliberately getting in the way of law enforcement efforts to catch terrorists seems a completely reprehensible thing to do. The blood of the next victims will to a certain extent be on your hands for participating in a scheme like this.
Personally, I think such morons should be locked up for doing shit like this.
...everything I learned about being a supervillain I learned from this book.
> Flash! Could there be greater proof of their villainy?
Oh yeah: "Client-side Java"
*shudder*
Hey, it's no surprise you and I are on the same wavelength -- we seem to have registered for our accounts here on the same day! ;-)
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
> we seem to have registered for our accounts here on the same day! ;-)
:)
Coolio. I remember being annoyed at all the anonymous coward "first post" nonsense, and decided to go ahead and register to get rid of them once Slashdot implemented the scoring system. Until then, I didn't see a need to bother. Now, of course, I realize I could've had a 3 digit user ID if I'd done it at the get-go. *shrug* Oh well, no biggie. Reading at +3 helps cut down on that a _lot_.
So I guess the only "evil doers" out there are German or Russian? Oh but I guess in about ten years we'll see Arabic ones too? By the way, I'm German (remember that country that was against starting that war that ended up being groundless.. yeah)
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It's absolutely necessary to know how to prefix everything with "Ãoeber". We couldn't just have supervillans prefixing any old word with Ãoeber - that just wouldn't do.
Also Germany has the leading group of supervillans when it comes to taking over the world.
I wish I could link to another /. post of mine, but I can't find it. I ranted a while back about wanting to start "Project White Noise" after yet another article about how Bush-n-Ashcroft were wiping thier asses with the US's constitution.
It's inspired by the old USENET "spook fodder" method. Fill the 'net with suspicious-looking traffic for the sake of decreasing the S/N ratio of various 3-letter agencies' snooping efforts.
The first and obvious protocol would be email. My goal would be to have email accounts in every country both sending & receiving messages to & from every other country (anyone want to calculate the permutation on that?).
Message payloads would include: legit messages, automated gibberish messages (fortune, spam generator, eliza bot, etc.), and purely random data. Each of these types could be sent: plaintext, public-key encrypted, symetricly encrypted, and encrypted with a one-time-pad (generated on the fly then tossed when sent, rendering the data non-recoverable).
Ideally, each white noise client would get a list of participating email addresses from a source (P2P network, perhaps) and send the messages at random intervals in the background whenever connected to the 'net.
I haven't solved the problem yet of routing truly legit mail through all of this. I guess the ultimate goal of this would be a distributed, peer-to-peer version of the Mixmaster network on steroids.
Then there's all sorts of fun you can have with other protocols and subliminal channels. There's a Phrack article on sending covert data in the payload of ICMP ping packets. I've often thought of using plain old HTTP. You send a line of ASCII-encoded (possible even encrypted) data file to a remote server in a GET line. The remote user massages the lines of data from the log files to reconstruct the data sent (works through corporate firewalls that allow web surfing!).
I'm all for catching bad guys, but I draw the line at wholesale monitoring of citizens. As I stated in a post long ago, I would rather risk dying in another random act of violence (of the 9/11 caliber) than be forced to live in a police state. I'm sure those who lost loved ones in the attacks wouldn't likely share my view, but what makes our country truly great is the freedom its citizens have, and eroding those freedoms cheapens the value of those lives lost on 9/11.
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Why? It's billiant satire. It's also a great (albeit small) way to stick it to the fascists running the world's governments.
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I guess that evil-doers include Korean speakers, and for quite some time, arabs are REALLY evil for tracing system. Or maybe even spanish, for their druglords in Colombia and other spanish speaking countries. ;-)
But we can't deny that russian speaking villain had their charm on the 70's.
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The US racist stereotypes require it.
On the other hand, in most of the world, Bush's cowboy hat seems to be the symbol of disrespect for rule of law.
Fortunately, US voters all know that the cowboy hat he is depicted with is really a symbol of his patriotism and heroism and Bush doesn't even speak German.
..and bandwith!
Want to protest snooping? Install PGP (or open src equivalent) and encrypt every email you send.
Write a simple installer so that my mum can install it easily as well and I'll tell her to use it too.
There. It is now "somewhat difficult" for the authorities to randomly snoop on every email. Of course, with the appropriate search warrants they can make you give up the keys, but that is another issue.
It's also a great (albeit small) way to stick it to the fascists running the world's governments.
Are you an anarchist?
There really is no Step 5 there. Caldera/SCO's plan is to Profit directly from #5, I'm sure.
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It's kind of hard to pick sides in tribal warfare with each side doing unto each other over the years. A brutal dictator on the other hand...
So much for not standing by and letting innocent people get slaughtered...
BTW in the 80's, when Rumsfeld was selling Iraq chemical and biological weapons for use against Iran, Saddam was a trusted ALLY. Isn't it funny how circumstances change, especially since he was just as brutal a dictator then as he was a few months ago...
I suspect that if you check a reputable source, Saddam Hussein would not rate as the worst dictator on the planet in recent history. Can't imagine why it was deemed so necessary to get rid of him. Surely it has nothing to do with oil...
So that's your argument? "We didn't liberate France right away."
Liberating France was a good thing. I just have to wonder why the US had to be dragged kicking and screaming into WWII in the first place. For more than two years people fought and died in that war and the US did not see any need for "regime change" in Nazi Germany...
Today however, based on lies and distortions, it seems perfectly admissible to fight a war and occupy a foreign nation simply because they have something GWB wants...
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
No. I am no more an anarchist than Thomas Jefferson. I just happen to believe in civil rights.
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Bullshit. To look at the government of the United States of America, the freest, most prosperous country on the face of the Earth, and even whisper the word "fascist" reveals your true nature. You're not a believer in anything. You're an anarchist and a nihilist and, above all, a fool.
A very brave, Anonymous Coward. Call me a fool.
But seriously...
---from www.m-w.com---
Main Entry: fasÂcism
Pronunciation...
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Note that I did not capitalize the word. I am using it as in definition 2. There was no fair election of the current regime (Bush et. al.). Censorship is being practiced (both in terms of obscenity laws and also by the FCC, as well as by the DMCA). Bush personally decide to go to war without being beholden to anyone. As is the topic of this post, the government is routinely spying on even law abiding citizens. Innocent people are being held indefinitely without due process (under the PATRIOT (II) act).
Now I'm not saying that there aren't good things about this country, but civil rights have certainly gone into the shitter since 9/11, and this means that the terrorists have won.
http://yetanotherpoliticalrant.blogspot.com
I am using it as in definition 2.
You may be TRYING to do so, but you are not succeeding. You are misusing the word.
There was no fair election of the current regime (Bush et. al.).
Your ignorance of American government and history is showing. Look up the elections of 1876 and 1888 and learn a thing or two about how the electoral college works.
Censorship is being practiced (both in terms of obscenity laws and also by the FCC, as well as by the DMCA).
Neither of these broad classes of incidents qualify as censorship. Communities have the freedom to establish standards for materials that may or may not be broadcast in their jurisdictions. And as for the DMCA, all I have to say is... whatever. I'm not even going to bother getting into that one. The fear-mongering thrown up by the libertarians about the DMCA never came to pass, not even a little bit. That collection of irresponsible, Chicken Little hoo-hah is a dead issue, dead and buried.
Bush personally decide to go to war without being beholden to anyone.
Apart from the fact that you're completely wrong about that, if it WERE true, that would be perfectly in line with the ideals that this country was founded upon. The executive is the commander in chief of the military, and has the SOLE power in the government to wage war. No other branch of government or outside body has any power in that department. For a historical lesson that almost precisely parallels recent events, look up the Barbary Pirates incident and the sacking of Tripoli. Your idol, President Jefferson, oversaw that one and acted in precisely the same way that President Bush has in recent months.
As is the topic of this post, the government is routinely spying on even law abiding citizens.
Yup. This is not prohibited by the Constitution, nor should it he. The prohibition in the Bill of Rights is against unreasonable searches. No unreasonable searches are being conducted. The surveillance that occurs all around you is the electronic equivalent of putting police officers in shopping malls. If the authorities overhear a PUBLIC, NON-PRIVATE conversation that gives them reason to be concerned, they act. Since there is no expectation of privacy on the Internet, there's nothing unreasonable about conducting surveillance on the Internet.
The government reads your email. Ooooh.
Innocent people are being held indefinitely without due process
Held indefinitely, yes. Without due process, no. (Also: innocent? No. No one who is being held is known to be innocent. That's why they're there. When they are known to be innocent, they are released.) The individuals who are being held are being held under the jurisdiction of either the INS or the military, and are subject to the forms of due process that exist under those jurisdictions. They are not just thrown in a hole and forgotten. They are dealt with according to the procedures established for those jurisdictions.
Also, remember that the Constitution applies to CITIZENS of the United States. "We the People," remember? So no fourth amendment issues can be applied except in the most general, abstract ways in cases not involving citizens of the United States.
Now I'm not saying that there aren't good things about this country, but civil rights have certainly gone into the shitter since 9/11, and this means that the terrorists have won.
You know what I love? I love the fact that you, presumably an American (based on the fact that you said "this country" and not "your country"), are sitting there in your comfy chair posting PUBLIC MESSAGES on the INTERNET (hotbed of spying, remember) in which you are ROUNDLY CRITICAL of your government. Some of your statements even border on SUBVERSION. (Denying the legitimacy of the duly elected government is dangerously close to subversion under Title 18.) And yet there you sit, without fear of retribution, persecution, or imprisonment. Irony rarely gets as
this is obviousely a trap by the NSA or GCHQ or perhaps even.....the INGUISITION!!!
be afraid be very afraid!!!
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