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I remember reading of another example like this on reddit where they referred to this kind of thing as "weaponized autism". In that example they had looked at t
by johnwatson11218 10y ago
I remember reading of another example like this on reddit where they referred to this kind of thing as "weaponized autism". In that example they had looked at training videos of a terrorist training camp and managed to get the physical coordinates which were passed to the military for an airstrike.
- Houshalter 10y agoReddit used to do stuff like this until the Boston Bombing. A bunch of volunteers created a big effort to try to identify the bombers from photos and videos of the event. The media reported on some suspects they came up with before it had any confirmation from authorities or anything. And ended up falsely accusing innocent people of being terrorists. Then there was a big backlash against reddit for even trying to do what they did. Now the community really frowns on stuff like that. The admins created much stricter site wide rules on posting personal information.
- chroma 10y agoYou're probably thinking of /sg/ (the Syria general broad) on 4chan last year: http://i.imgur.com/5P1N1GI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5P1N1GI.jpg Turnaround time (from initial post to bombs dropping) was about 36 hours. Most of the delay was in relaying the info to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
- backpropaganda 10y agoDoes this operation have a wikipedia page?
- ars 10y agoSounds like "Focus" from A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.