If his “100% evidence” turns out to be “Spyder” or one of these other infosec cosplayers, someone please call me an ambulance, because I’ll definitely rupture something laughing.
I suspect it may be, because “Spyder” (Sidney Powell’s sooper sekrit cybersecurity expert who turned out to be a military intel washout with delusions of being a hacker) specifically makes a bunch of dubious links between Dominion & other countries, particularly China.
As the developer of the software “Spyder” used explains here, “Spyder” incompetently inferred a nefarious China link from the fact that a domain Dominon owned years ago is now registered to a Chinese company. Yes, really. medium.com/@micallst/misu…
Infosec Walter Mitty is actually named Josh Merritt; I just think it’s funnier to keep calling him “Spyder”. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Also, if it’s not this, you’ve got to read Lindell as claiming he’s got evidence of vote rigging and has chosen to sit on it until after inauguration day. More likely he doesn’t understand what a joke the old evidence was, or hopes pretending not to understand saves him.
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I’ll court embarrassment by making a prediction: Over the next few weeks & months, QAnon is going to shrink significantly as it becomes clear Biden’s just getting a normal term. But the core who remain via whatever story they make up will be even more dangerous & nuts.
More nuts because any moderating influence from people even tenuously connected to reality will be gone. More dangerous because “Trust the Plan” had a convenient soporific effect. Trump’s people were going to round up the evil satanist pedophile cannibal Elites, after all.
If you keep the Cabal fantasy minus the notion that the people in power have a Plan to stop them, some percentage are going to conclude THEY are the true Plan & need to “fight back” directly.
As with Powell’s “Spyder,” I wonder if this stuff gets traction in part because it’s so OBVIOUSLY absurd to anyone technical that the folks who could easily debunk it can’t imagine it’s worth the time to do so.
It’d be like writing a long essay explaining the world isn’t actually run by Lizard People. Who could fall for that in the first place? And if they did, well, they’ve probably got a screw loose and writing a rational response ain’t going to help.
Except it turns out NOT to be so obviously gibberish to the non-technical, for whom it all sort of sounds like gibberish, and the absence of a response gets interpreted as “the MSM is AFRAID to talk about the evidence."
This is apparently the “100% evidence” Mike Lindell is relying on to claim Dominion voting systems were “hacked” by foreign adversaries. It’s a screed from a crank site called The American Report, obviously written by tech illiterates, containing no actual evidence.
The article claims unsourced “raw data analytics” obtained by the crank site prove that various “IP addresses” associated with election offices were “hacked” by “IP addresses” in various foreign countries. It is word salad with gibberish croutons.
The article ends with an unsourced list of foreign IP addresses, paired with the domestic IP addresses they supposedly “hacked”. (You don’t “hack” an IP address, but whatever.) There is no reason to think this list represents… well, anything.
Though depending on the details, it might incur liability for defamation if the speaker knew or should have known it was a lie...
It occurs to me this presents a potentially tricky question for defamation law. A lot of these “rigged election” claims are sufficiently clearly false that it should be apparent to any reasonable person. But many people parroting the claims sincerely believe them...
App stores and Web hosts have every right to decide what platforms they want to associate with, but I worry about what happens to encrypted messaging apps—which can’t moderate user content because they can’t see it—as bad actors move their discussions to closed group chats.
Of course, nobody really “moderates” or expects anyone to moderate unencrypted private messaging either. Every e-mail server in the country probably contains stuff as bad or worse than what was on Parler; we have different expectations about public fora.
But a public/private binary is somewhat artificial when nominally closed discussion groups can have hundreds of participants.