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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by jhugo on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:52PM (#33075961)
Nobody who bothers to check what the tool does will be swayed by this. If someone wants to make shit up, and their audience will not bother to spend 30 seconds looking at their "sources", they could just write a script that outputs whatever they wanted and then point at that script.
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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by voakbasda on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:36AM (#33080996)
You are putting a lot of faith in people to do that diligence. Most people will take the “evidence” at face value. And yes, people do write scripts to generate material to defame or hurt others.
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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by jhugo on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:48PM (#33090021)
You're making my point. People take evidence at face value, so a program like Maigret makes no difference. Why bother using Maigret when you can just make stuff up?
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