While I think the original statement falls a little short of being axiomatic, this is interesting enough not to quibble over details.

I suppose in a less technical way we all do this on the surface already (using handles that aren't our real names, etc), so extending it to the rest of our online life would, I suppose, make sense. I'll have to read through the thread there before I can really get thinking about it though, I'm sure there's some massive problem that hasn't occured to me as I get a taste of it just.

>>4276
And yet is completely accurate for reality. Name one thing people don't do, even though it would make a shitload of money.

As for the topic at hand...I like a mix, best. For example, I have a work related email account. Everything associated with that account is factual, because I use it to interact with real, cash paying, clients. I have a variety of other accounts for other reasons, which all have about as much detail in them, that are completely, utterly, false.

Also, the next bit you didn't quote is not quite accurate. While yes, the sale price for a poor coca grower is very very low, the profit for the next guy is not $70. He hopes he makes enough money to feed his family and buy the fertilizer to grow the next crop, and Diesel to separate the alkaloids from the plant mass. The guy who basically owns his ass makes...oh, maybe ten bucks for that same 1c unit. Maybe less. And on up the food chain to the street dealer who pays for as pure a product as he can get, steps on it a good deal, and sells it for as much as he can get. It's not nearly as simple, or as clean a progression, as it makes it sound.

This would work well if enough people did it... but if only a few do it, you'll still make plenty of money from tracking everyone else.

A possibilty to have a larger impact, would be if a fair amount of people started to just pretend to be another user at another service. So i could scrape a christian forum, and use the user details of a user to register at a stamp collecting site. Since I scraped all the information and it all matches, it would make it look like im a christian, and make the original look like a stamp collecter.

That way even if the christian person doesnt give a fuck about privacy, you fuck up their online presence. With enough people doing that, all "links" based on username would not be trustable.

Yea, as everyone says in this thread, what is better - fake info, or corrupted data? Sending a load of corrupted and unreadable info seems interesting, but would probably mark you out. Sending data that made x user look like y user seems more profitable, esp. if y user was entirely fictional, because you could really play with advertising algorithms that way and have Amazon, etc believe there were thousands upon thousands of Mormons into BDSM in the middle of Cambodia, etc.

>>4280
PS. Megachan is SFW, no porn! (No ban though cause I think that was an honest mistake)

>>4282
Yeah. It's pretty rare to have porn that isn't just drive-by.

As far as the internet is concerned, there are about twelve people accessing this IP address. Who are everything from devout Buddhists to watersport loving transvestites. I always figure "hey, I gotta give big brother SOMETHING interesting to look at while they filter through my traffic".

>>4281
I read the link and I'm pretty sure they meant "corrupted data" as in "corrupting the final results of a datamine", not sending malformed packets.

>>4280
This was covered as well.

n33t have you come up with the "massive problem" yet? (other than getting the required amount of people swapping info, which could be accomplished in black hat ways as a last resort)

>>4285
that last bit sounds a lot more like a botnet sort of deal...iffy and risky for use with anything real.

>>4275
There was a program which sent fake google searches I think if you installed it as a firefox addon

You could just run a site like, http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

except have legitimate user credentials, just use same API and all the plugins for browsers that fill out forms using fakenamegenerator etc will work.

That way you can go to a site, click one button to fill out the form with someones harvested info (with all data entered the same as another person).

Obviously using the same IP address as the person who usually uses that information is not simple to do, but a lot of data miners are simply web spiders.

>>4287
TrackMeNot