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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by stephengillie on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:17AM (#11729134)
What would this look like? Maybe a bot that went to dodgy sites, and signed up for accounts in your name, with random-but-valid data?

Maybe it would go into comment threads, Google the title, and post a blurb paragraph from a top result? Use karma and elastic search to machine learn which sites and topics to post?

It might even respond to questions with the specific random data for that site from when it signed up, to keep it consistent.

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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by Balgair on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:08PM (#11731242)
I mean, what you describe is most comments on Youtube or anywhere really. Can't we just pay a measly sum to some troll and let them run loose with a bot network conditioned on the fever-rants of 4chan/b/? Would this make the net worse? Could we tell?
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