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Here's what happened to me: - Reached out to a Russian troll on twitter via DM to discuss some specific topic he had mentioned. I try to engage the conversatio
by kjqgqkejbfefn 3y ago
Here's what happened to me:
- Reached out to a Russian troll on twitter via DM to discuss some specific topic he had mentioned. I try to engage the conversation on this topic which requires "blowing up his cover".
- The shill gets angry and asks me to imagine what he would do to me.
- My reply convince him I'm a US intelligence officer. After some nervous back and forth between blocking and unblocking me, someone else seems to be on the other side of the line and asks me to talk to my manager/officer, using some spy scheme from a movie. I back the fuck out.
- About a week later, I realize there is an "iCloud" segment in my finder left vertical bar. All the sync settings are ticked, including stuff I do not use. I go check the sync folders' last modified time: a mere two hours after I had this conversation on Twitter.
- Go back on twitter to see what the shill is up to. He's complaining about suffering a breach of his iCloud account and blames some intelligence service in Frankfurt, providing a picture of the building.
I have no idea what I have stepped into. Was it some counter-intel honey pot ? Then it was pretty well made. Or are these people genuinely working for some russian service ? If so, then they are batshit crazy, arrogant and not as professional as one may expect.
As a result I nuked my github and stopped using my phone, my watch, youtube account, etc. I was promised open brain surgery/interrogation by people that are allegedly expert doxxers and torturers and thought I was an intelligence soldier fighting against them.
- labrador 3y agoI had a similar experience many years ago and learned my lesson and stopped engaging this way with people I didn't know. Later I learned just how easy it is to dox people using stylometry (see: how Ted Kaczynski was caught) or by finding a careless mistake (see: how Dread Pirate Roberts was caught). I was glad then that I learned to be cautious.
- kjqgqkejbfefn 3y agoThis is exactly how I "blew up" his cover. The fact he used low quotation marks "disproved" the claim he was from western europe (mostly). I have no certitude though. This could well be intentional if this was a counter-intel honey pot, in which case I kneel. Would you mind sharing your anecdote, keeping things blurry as I did ?
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- labrador 3y agoI shared some info then deleted it. Best not poke that sleeping dog.
- kjqgqkejbfefn 3y agoCaught it, thanks