Trolling the NSA the all time worst idea ever?
Posted by: Jon on 06/12/2013 06:57 AM
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With all the hoopla about the NSA surveillance continuing to make the rounds, someone has come up with a really bad idea in my opinion. The idea was hatched by two BuzzFeed employees, and asks citizens to jam up the National Security Agency’s servers.
Chris Baker and Mike Lacher, creative directors at the news site, say they hope millions of people will send a seemingly mundane email about a bad job and travel plans to their friends at exactly 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The catch: the script, which they wrote together, is filled with words that could pique the NSA’s interest – including “bomb,” “ricin,” “radicalized,” “true believers,” and “flight school.”
Baker says the idea was spawned over a drink at a Washington, D.C., bar with his father, Richard Baker. They were chatting about the NSA scandals when his dad had an idea: “Wouldn’t it be funny if we could overload the NSA’s monitoring systems and just said the word ‘bomb’ over and over and over again?”
“I thought it was so funny I couldn’t stop laughing,” the younger Baker told The Daily Beast.
“Troll the NSA” asks citizens to call the NSA’s bluff: “If millions of us, at the exact same time, call or email someone with our keywords-of-terror-filled script, we can give our nation’s impressive surveillance apparatus the kind of test it deserves. They say they don’t listen to the content of our messages. Why not test it out? It’ll be fun,” the site asks.
"It will be fun" they say until the FBI, CIA or any of the other alphabet troops are knocking on your door, and blaming you for taking part in an attempted hillbilly DDoS attack. The hive is already on alert, probably not a great idea to smack it with a stick.
Chris Baker and Mike Lacher, creative directors at the news site, say they hope millions of people will send a seemingly mundane email about a bad job and travel plans to their friends at exactly 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The catch: the script, which they wrote together, is filled with words that could pique the NSA’s interest – including “bomb,” “ricin,” “radicalized,” “true believers,” and “flight school.”
Baker says the idea was spawned over a drink at a Washington, D.C., bar with his father, Richard Baker. They were chatting about the NSA scandals when his dad had an idea: “Wouldn’t it be funny if we could overload the NSA’s monitoring systems and just said the word ‘bomb’ over and over and over again?”
“I thought it was so funny I couldn’t stop laughing,” the younger Baker told The Daily Beast.
“Troll the NSA” asks citizens to call the NSA’s bluff: “If millions of us, at the exact same time, call or email someone with our keywords-of-terror-filled script, we can give our nation’s impressive surveillance apparatus the kind of test it deserves. They say they don’t listen to the content of our messages. Why not test it out? It’ll be fun,” the site asks.
"It will be fun" they say until the FBI, CIA or any of the other alphabet troops are knocking on your door, and blaming you for taking part in an attempted hillbilly DDoS attack. The hive is already on alert, probably not a great idea to smack it with a stick.
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