Was just using a moderated (faked) copy of the original database/forum
January 15, 2013 1:25 PM Subscribe
What advice would you give to a person, who doubts that the discussion forum he is using, is just a "moderated copy" of the original? Meaning that the database would have been copied from a server to another and programming code controlling the forum engine would be customized.
Two example cases:
1. High functioning autistic person or a person having diagnosed as having Asperger's syndrome thinks he is having textual discussion on some foreign discussion forum. He doesn't know personally any of the member of the forum. It looks like there are thousands of users (member count). Discussion traffic seems to be relatively low, but there seems to be topics that interest him. However, he is constantly "punished" verbally by "others", who are actually just surrogates (if you kind of own forum's database, who can make anybody say anything).
2. Iran and Pakistan. They are both countries, who has Internet censorship in place. Somewhere in one of those countries might be individuals (loners in this case), who might want to "change the world", but aren't aware that they actively being "programmed" by other people, who support the goverment and who plant ideas to his head, while he thinks he making a discussion on some discussion forum.
In both cases some changes must be made to the hardware and software, which has something to how Internet operates and how it is been used (routers, DNS-servers, operating systems, application servers, etc.). It also helps, if Google and Bing turn evil.
Two example cases:
1. High functioning autistic person or a person having diagnosed as having Asperger's syndrome thinks he is having textual discussion on some foreign discussion forum. He doesn't know personally any of the member of the forum. It looks like there are thousands of users (member count). Discussion traffic seems to be relatively low, but there seems to be topics that interest him. However, he is constantly "punished" verbally by "others", who are actually just surrogates (if you kind of own forum's database, who can make anybody say anything).
2. Iran and Pakistan. They are both countries, who has Internet censorship in place. Somewhere in one of those countries might be individuals (loners in this case), who might want to "change the world", but aren't aware that they actively being "programmed" by other people, who support the goverment and who plant ideas to his head, while he thinks he making a discussion on some discussion forum.
In both cases some changes must be made to the hardware and software, which has something to how Internet operates and how it is been used (routers, DNS-servers, operating systems, application servers, etc.). It also helps, if Google and Bing turn evil.
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