Utopia Talk / Politics / Honeypot

Daemon Member	Fri Dec 07 04:38:58 OMG I've revealed all my multis to that site! http://www...german-website-honeypot-nazis/ Site claiming to tell neo-Nazis if they’d been exposed was actually doxing them David Gilmour— Dec 6 A collective of German artists revealed on Wednesday that a website pretending to crowdsource help in identifying far-right, anti-immigration protesters was in fact set up to “honeypot” neo-Nazis. As part of the Special Commission Chemnitz campaign, following violent far-right riots in the German city of Chemnitz, activists and artists of the Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) encouraged citizens to out any neighbors and acquaintances they spotted in pictures taken at the protests. “Denounce your work colleague, neighbors or acquaintances today and collect immediate cash,” the website promised. The campaign immediately sparked a media debate, aided by ZPS, over whether the website controversially violated privacy rights. With that, far-right demonstrators began nervously checking whether they’d been doxed by entering their own name and accomplices’ names into the search bar. The whole front was dropped this week, however, when the website was abruptly swapped out for a holding page emblazoned with the words: “Thank you, dear Nazis.” “We built a website with one single goal: To get you to deliver your entire network yourselves without even noticing it,” ZPS wrote. “Using the search function you shared more with us than publicly available sources ever could have revealed.” The group went on to explain how it had recorded search terms entered by users and from that created a list of potential far-right supporters. Each visitor, it said, entered an “average of 6.72 friends or acquaintances.” Researching that list, using network analysis and data visualization, the activists were able to evaluate each person’s associates and identities fairly easily. “This is the most relevant set of data on right-wing extremism that currently exists in Germany,” ZPS founder Philipp Ruch said in an interview with German news agency EPD. The group claims to have identified around 1,500 individuals who participated in Chemnitz demonstrations. ZPS, the group behind the action, has risen to notoriety in Germany for its creative and provocative campaigns. After Björn Höcke, head of right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, said that Germany was “crippled” by its “stupid” politics of Holocaust remembrance last year, ZPS moved into a house in his neighborhood and set up a replica of the Holocaust memorial on his front lawn. This latest stunt, though, is proving extremely popular with U.S.-based antifa chapters who seem pretty inspired by it.
Rugian Member	Fri Dec 07 09:58:10 Stories like this are a reminder that Europeans are actually really backwards yokels in a lot of ways. I mean, who falls for this...come on.
Cherub Cow Member	Mon Dec 10 01:08:33 Yeah.. it's kind of like falling for those Internet advertisements that say, "Find out who's searching for you!". At the same time, doxing people for sport is pretty disgusting behavior, regardless of whether those targeted people are white/black/Cheeto supremacists.
jergul large member	Mon Dec 10 05:39:46 yah, no. It generated a list of people. Like me using the site and checking "Forwyn", "Ruggy", "Hood", "Pillz" and "Cherub Cow" Does my checking make you likely Nazis?
hood Member	Mon Dec 10 08:10:37 He fuck nuts, don't be including my name in your shit. I already cause enough of my own trouble.
Cherub Cow Member	Mon Dec 10 15:22:58 Another solid point from jergul. Not a single obvious logical pitfall to point out.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Dec 10 15:31:45 Don't know about the rest of them, but hood certainly is one.
hood Member	Mon Dec 10 15:37:56 ^ retard calling a Jewish person a Nazi again. You'd think he'd learn.
Rugian Member	Mon Dec 10 15:48:13 Hood is a Nazi...a Thread Nazi, that is. NO THREAD FOR YOU!
hood Member	Mon Dec 10 16:06:18 Kein Thread für dich!
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Dec 10 18:56:53 hood if you were to act like a mensch instead of a schmuck folks might be nicer to you.
hood Member	Mon Dec 10 19:18:12 Rod, your self righteous ego knows no bounds. What compels you to think that your opinion of me has any value is beyond my understanding. I will simply chalk it up to being a property of the false reality you have constructed. The people who matter (friends, coworkers) are plenty nice to me. Perhaps the problem is just you?
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