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Here at the Agency, we spent months brainstorming ways to surreptitiously collect personal data from HN users. Ultimately, we decided to create a simple, rough
by hawkharris 13y ago
Here at the Agency, we spent months brainstorming ways to surreptitiously collect personal data from HN users.
Ultimately, we decided to create a simple, rough-looking Web app. We wanted it to look like it was made by an amateur developer who was hoping to glean constructive criticism from his peers.
This way, we realized, HN users would swarm to it with an urge to post snarky comments. They wouldn't be able to help themselves, like flies drawn to honey.
We call it Operation Snarky, and it's an offshoot of PRISM. You've all been had.