Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century.
The most potent tools for fighting injustice are the ones already in your hands. The enemy has a new form. Today's wars are fought from computer consoles; climate disinformation campaigns are...
https://jwz.org/b/ykea
@tito_swineflu Or you could read the article.
@jwz Which article? Yours? The web site? I've been there, and it reminds me wholesale of the old CIA slow-walk sabotage book that I linked to.
@tito_swineflu Dude it's right there in the fucking title. "For the 21st Century".
@jwz I'm not certain what your concern is. I saw that web site a while ago, the one that you link to, and I was struck by how much it mimics the tactics in the old 1950's/60's CIA sabotage manual that was popular to have in the 1980's. It says, "for the 21st century", which is funny, because I feel like it was written before, around 70 years ago, with only slight changes.
@tito_swineflu I can't tell if you're just being intentionally obtuse.
It is -- clearly and explicitly -- a reference to and update of the OSS version from 1944. Why? Because the OSS version was insufficiently prescient to offer advice on wifi routers and email.
But yeah, "Meh, seen it" is, as always, exciting discourse that you should always contribute.
I wonder if that's in the manual.
@jwz I don't see any reference to the OSS manual. Maybe I'm missing that somewhere? Every time I've seen this presented, it's been presented as something new, but it does look exactly like the OSS manual, so maybe I'm the only one who didn't get the joke? I keep seeing it presented without the OSS context, so it was confusing for me. I guess the joke was there all along and it just didn't land for me.
@jwz Ah. I was looking for 'OSS' in all the verbiage. Anyway, thanks for clarifying. It is quite comical.
@jwz Based on my experience in corporate America: if these techniques worked, we’d be winning already
@fivetonsflax @jwz I was thinking something similar, but that’s what makes this so plausible, isn’t it? Nothing so overt as sabotaging a railway signal box, just a little bit more friction where it’s needed.
Add superfluous dependencies
Use inefficient algorithms
Set overly-ambitious timelines
Use confusing variable names
The software industry being full of saboteurs sure would explain a lot.