- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
[[Webpage]]1. log into slack in the browser.
2. go to https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
3. Look for a button associated to that slack that says Create Token
DO NOT CLICK if it says Request Token
4. copy/paste it here.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
If you could get the global conversation there.
It could also go:
you out a bunch of high level RES but cant stop their tool
you out a bunch of high level ENL but cant stop their tool
They say "fuck you, you're cheating too." We say "fuck you, you leaked our tool and cant be trusted." Everyone who didnt have access to scrape data before has access now by contacting someone who does. Some trusted ENL and some RES lose status with Niantic. Niantic posts something ambivalent about scraping violating the terms of the game, but makes no changes.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
Ok, so I know that the whistle blower is compelled my moral compunction. I am not so much. Ive played this game at a disadvantage long enough and put up with it, I've earned the right to say without the slightest waiver that I want to maximize the damage this does.
Fuck those fucking assholes and all their asshole fiends.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=42.142193,-83.205396&z=17&pll=42.142193,-83.205396
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=42.128225,-83.185703&z=20&pll=42.128225,-83.185703
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) you can use a scraper to painstakingly analyze the mu of fields, you can use it to tell you who threw a link, you can use it to automate responses to other teams actions, or you can use it to guardian hunt. I dont see them all as the same degree of evil because NIA said so
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
Everyone can authenticate to the client via V, but you can also setup a channel that sends you alerts when activity happens in a predefined area. I turned off everything on mine except new portals.
Doing that makes you an admin for those channels. Everyone can just not use cactus. If you signed up for a channel, leave it, and remove yourself from the admin sheet.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
so I propose that we:
Quickly build the website really nicely and clearly showing what this thing is, who was in it, and what they did. Try to gather cases of actual kills.
Once its a button push away from rolling out, we bring in a group of ENL who can review the list early and tell us who some of these RES are.
If anything leaks in that stage, you roll out with what you have.
After 24 hours for review, it goes public with a G+/Reddit post. Who posts and whether it should be anonymous subject to a poll here.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fERELXXix5B1QIgqc0QeTgPvQ5j-7_62nykRaTQ7vSg/edit
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
A couple points that dont make sense for the website but should accompany the announcement post.
A) Yes, some enl probably do it too, but nothing on this scale.
B) No really, nothing remotely like this.
C) There will always be tools. If this thing collapses, something else will take its place.
D) Resistance needs to collectively grow the fuck up and knock this shit off.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
ok, so need some help on the Post Text.
I dont just want to point at TOS and say "look TOS, they violated TOS" because although from a technical standpoint that is how they cheated, the cheating matters because of what they did with it. I tried some things but jillian said I was handwaving, and maybe so. How do you say "what they did with the thing was a whole nother problem" really well.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) https://tinyurl.com/scrapingfucks
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]https://brokersguild.wordpress.com/mail/
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZ8EkK3eWY
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
#ideas
the guardian badge isnt a big deal, focus on strategic play. - then why did 800+ agents participate in a sophisticated system to deny them?
this system was used to catch spoofers - then why is it structured with specific commands for finding someone to kill guardians?
Any noble minded attempts to address spoofing would have been A) xfac, since datahasnocolor and b) shaped to prevent misuse
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
#ideas
If you say you were in the network to detect spoofers, ok, I will believe thats why you joined, and I hate that spoofing happens. It's not an ENL only problem.
But you still failed the test dramatically when you stood by while a massive guardian hunting operation took place before your eyes. The system didnt NEED to have the features that allowed GH to take place in order to catch spoofers. Did you advocate for that change? Did you tell people that you thought this was wrong or off-track from the mission?
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]http://pastebin.com/BHiXvzNn
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
I have been deeply disturbed by so many of the revelations that have come out of the Brokers Guild story:
The sheer numbers of agents involved, including many that I considered colleagues.
The fundamental disconnect between how my community views this game and how the community leaders in the Brokers Guild view it.
But there is nothing more wrong than the argument Iβve heard in a few places that the Brokers Guild was fundamentally on the side of good, rooting out the location-altering cheating that endangers the soul of Ingress.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
Augmented reality gameplay is new and exciting territory. Yes, we all put our privacy on the line a bit every day that we play Ingress. But we also get to help define the cultural norms on using one another's location information. There has been some back-and-forth this week about whether x specific feature of #RIOT is technically within bounds of the Ingress TOS. Or claims that Niantic is aware of these TOS violations but tolerates them because theyβve been used to catch spoofers. If that's the case, Niantic can simply say so.
But so much of what is revealed in these screen shots is so far outside of the bounds of moral behavior. No one ends up in a Slack by mistake β you have to explicitly accept an invitation, and it is clear that one of the requirements for membership in this Slack was registration with your real agent name, spelling quirks and all. Joining the Brokers Guild was a conscious choice.
And once in, well, you'd see we can all see from these screenshots, in public channels inside that Slack. Guardian hit requests, complete with automated lists of which Brokers live nearby. The deals being brokered were guardian hits, not spoofer stings.
People helping each other set up bot access in other chat platforms to propagate scraped data to their local communities. Agents building portfolios of players whose every move they wanted to stalk.
Somehow, the hundreds of people in that Slack, even if they werenβt all participating, even if they joined with noble intentions, stayed silent about what they saw there.
That is destroying the soul of Ingress.
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) [[Webpage]]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ZSMb-FLiJckeKcuPI21gJhf2DkoO822Il4_QjDavUs/edit#gid=0
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
{{FWD: Jana D [Chamyra, GER], 20.10.2017 20:40:47}}
[[Webpage]]Google+ Beitrag von Liberty Naud (LibertyBot2)
https://plus.google.com/112036898906655255371/posts/GiS8fvV9p1z
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1XWJjWwKzVI10QbRkLh6-L7XbZjE&ll=38.703733719962926%2C-119.7299519375&z=7
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XWJjWwKzVI10QbRkLh6-L7XbZjE&usp=sharing
- Erich Bacher (@thePrevaricator WI, US)
{{FWD: Tiernan (NVX) NQ AU, 21.10.2017 00:16:45}}
So there's been RES leaks, and as a result there's been a desire to expose the presumably similar ENL scrapers of the world as well in a similar manner. I don't run such a tool nor am I affiliate with them, but I do run some tools which, just like IITC, do violate the strict letter of the ToS. As operators we've set an arbitrary view on where that line should be and what tools we are and are not comfortable using and that's fine, however rumours of ENL agents wanting to blow open things is concerning to me because I don't know if your opinion on this matter includes eg flipcard databases and portal location information.
As I have absolutely no desire to get caught up in the middle of this sort of thing, anyone suspected of wanting to willingly leak any information on opsec tools as a preventative measure will not have access to any tools I develop.