The Smallest Things Can Be The Most Sinister....Pokemon Go.

[Peter Lemkin]

The CIA's Pokémon Go' App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can't

Corbett 07/14/2016 9 Comments
by James Corbett
TheInternationalForecaster.com
July 13, 2016
Privacy advocates (that's establishment speak for "normal human beings") celebrated earlier this week as the House rejected yet another attempt to expand the Patriot Act's snooping provisions. House Resolution 5606, better known by its Orwellian name, the "Anti-terrorism Information Sharing is Strength Act," would have allowed Big Brother to access Americans' financial information based on what the government deems to be "suspicious activity." Given that the DHS has labeled such things as using binoculars, paying with cash, or even "appearing normal" as "possible terrorist activity" in the past (thus making pretty much every human being a possible terrorist), everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the bill failed.
But don't breathe that sigh too deeply, because exactly as that threat to privacy was being extinguished, another one was rising to take its place. It goes by the name of "Pokémon Go" and it is a so-called "augmented reality" game that allows users to capture, train and battle virtual Pokémon by chasing them around through real world environments with your smart phone.
Full disclosure: Although I live in the land of anime and video games, I have never played any Pokémon games, watched any of the shows, read any of the comics or bought any of the toys associated with the franchise. I don't know anything about it except for the name of that ubiquitous yellow Pikachu character. So if you are an out-of-touch fuddy-duddy like me, you may be surprised to learn that the "Pokémon Go" app, launched just one week ago, is the hottest thing on the planet right now.
To put into perspective just how popular this game is, it topped the App Store's "Top Grossing" category within 24 hours of its release. Now, just one week out, it has been downloaded an estimated 7.5 million times in the US alone and is generating an estimated $1.6 million a day for Nintendo. But here's the truly mind-boggling part: In just the first two trading days after the game's release, Nintendo's market value rose a staggering $7.5 billion. That's right, folks, this is not merely a game, it is a phenomenon.
For those unfamiliar with "augmented reality" gaming, it's a type of game where one tracks virtual characters or objects that appear on their smart phones through real world environments. The Pokémon Go game is prompting scores of people out into the streets to go chasing for wild Pokémon to capture.
It is also prompting heists, violence, hoaxes and hysteria.
On the more innocuous side, some restaurants and businesses are already trying to cash in on their proximity to spots with a lot of in-game activity. On the less innocuous side, robbers are now using "Lures" (which attract Pokémon to a certain spot) to lure gamers in to be mugged. One 19-year-old hunting for water Pokémon in a rural river ended up uncovering a dead body, one IT executive got fired from his job after an online Facebook tirade inspired by frustration at the game, and one YouTuber who was live streaming the game while out Ubering allegedly saw someone get murdered right in front of him…but that turned out to be a hoax.
If you're wondering what's going on here, you're not the only one. It seems the internet is flipping its collective lid over this app as the line between gaming and the real world gets blurrier. But perhaps all of this pales in comparison to the game's terms and conditions.
Firstly, the app requires an excessive amount of permissions on a user's device, including the ability to read your contacts, find accounts on your device, and access your camera. The app even requires full access to a user's Google account, which it can then use to read your emails, send emails from your account, browse your Google Drive documents and photos, etc. But apparently that's just "a mistake" and will be "corrected soon."
Secondly, the game's privacy policy contains such gems as: "We may disclose any information about you (or your authorized child) that is in our possession or control to government or law enforcement officials or private parties." What could go wrong?
But wait, it gets worse!
The maker of the app? Niantic Labs. Never heard of them? That's because until last year they were an internal start-up of none other than Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic's major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps.
So yes, the Pokémon game currently taking the internet by storm (and scooping up all their data, including activities, movements and communications) was created by a CIA-linked businessman who gestated his company at Google.
Feeling safe yet?
As it turns out, the big, bad Big Brother Spies of the NSA and the DHS and the CIA don't really need their Patriot Act powers, after all. All the powers-that-shouldn't-be need to do is create a fun, shiny trinket for the people to play with and they will literally pay for their own surveillance.
Welcome to the "Matrix Economy," where people pay to spy on themselves…and have fun doing it!
Huxley would be proud.

[Drew Phipps]

I have already heard that media-savvy criminals are monitoring the game to locate nearby unsuspecting or distracted victims for muggings and the like. If you play, take a friend.

[Michael Barwell]

I've had many references that add-up to the notion of me being signed-up to a similar system as this; I used to get refs to IFF (ID friend or foe); 'pipsqueak' (the return call the transponder makes upon receiving an 'interrogation' signal), [oh, neuralgic there]; "glow(s) in the dark" - linked to Google Glass; a copper walked past me one day, and something on him 'beeped' - very orchestrated that one & on from a spate of refs. I'd assume 'Pokemon Go' is 'hidden in plain sight' stuff, with the 'fun' element of torture-murder-schiz-'training' & 'Monarch programming' thrown-in to keep the V-manner involved with those smirks they wear. It would explain how I get stalked from in front, for eg., & the "with you forever" "always by your side"-type refs.

The tech's a piece of piss to do - as I know it, it's WW2 stuff, & I suppose RFID in an environment drenched in radio-frequency energy; curious thing, but of course, all those microwave signals towers're doing, is pumping energy into the environment, hence what i take it to be - energy-gathering chips & antennae.



...Goood grief, Penfold...

This doc that I've just looked at - http://www.academia.edu/9661026/Psycholo...ro_Complex - has the shitehounds down pat, makes some very very interesting points; add in extreme authoritarianism, tech evangelism, obsessive malorders & a couple of extreme pathological syndromes, & it's the bona fide basket case squaderoony.

[Magda Hassan]

Had a friend over today who spent some time going all over our back yard looking for one of these things to catch that was supposed to be there. She never did find it but she was sure it was there. I wonder if there is a way, like with Google earth, you can get these things removed from your space? Don't mind friends but don't fancy strangers trespassing to go hunt for these things around my house.

[Drew Phipps]

They'd probably require you to download an app in order to opt out.

[Magda Hassan]

They'd probably require you to download an app in order to opt out.

::dalek::

I expect you may be correct Drew.

[Michael Barwell]

They'd probably require you to download an app in order to opt out.

::dalek::

I expect you may be correct Drew.

"And all the Daleks on planet finger-point said "Dissociate... Dissociate". Just an old pisstake-post of mine that seems to resonate. >

Last week on Auntieobergruppenfurher Beeb - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36763902 - 'Dalek' commands can hijack smartphones - 11 July 2016 . >

I'm 'told' i have an iphone6 inside my head >

Thinks of the 'headaches' & shrill tone tinnitus >

Jason Bourne film >

Google searches 'dissociative disorder bourne' gets "Jason Bourne is pulled from the sea by a passing fishing vessel, with no knowledge of who he is, or how he came to drift alone in open water. The bullets in his back and the bank code embedded in his hip are the only bits of information to survive his identity loss. Bourne must evade his pursuers, while slowly piecing together what few clues he can find that help uncover memories of his secret life as a government assassin." Only several refs there. Is reminded of "Not even wanted as a spy" ref, 3weeks ago >

Somehow find - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Bourne "Ansel Bourne (18261910) was a famous 19th-century psychology case due to his experience of a probable dissociative fugue. The case, among the first ever documented,[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] remains of interest as an example of multiple personality and amnesia. Among the doctors who treated Bourne was William James." >

Checks 'dissociative fugue' gets "Dissociative fugue, formerly [B]fugue state or [B]psychogenic fugue, is a DSM-5 dissociative disorder.[SUP][1][/SUP] It is a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

[/B][/B]5! Boat5! - sussed.

[Magda Hassan]

Because it is just a game to some.

Ukrainian website uses Pokémon Go concept to hunt Russians, LDPR defenders

Monday, July 25, 2016 - 09:58


Turning a children's game into an instrument of warfare, a Ukrainian website with close ties to the Poroshenko regime appalls the world once again.
The notorious Ukrainian Mirotvorets website that collects personal data on Russians it brands as "terrorists" wants to develop an app inspired by Pokémon Go to hunt suspected Russian military forces and the DPR/LPR defenders.
Dubbed "PokemonRu," the app for Android and iOS mobile devices requires "players to hunt for hiding Russian mercenaries and Russian military criminals, aka Pokemons, in cities where they live, and covertly track their movements," said the website.

Information about Pokemons is rewarded with bonuses, which may be monetized after reaching a certain level. Players can also identify new Pokemons and submit data on them via an interactive map, complete with geolocation data.

Much like the actual Pokémon Go, the game calls for "team-stalking" and offers more "advanced" players the option of hunting for "trickier monsters", reports Sputnilk.
"If somebody takes it for a joke or trolling, he is very wrong," said the website about something that nobody in their right mind could laugh about.
DONi News Agency

https://dninews.com/article/ukrainian-we...-defenders