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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-05-01 08:59 pm

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Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting!

You guys might like this wikihow. Later!

Jim Halloway
Research & Development
Retrspec Incorporated

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At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Just moving along.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-08 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb How does it even know who I'm showing it to, is a better, if more terrifying, question.
Eleanor Lamb It doesn't change if I show it to someone on the network.
Eleanor Lamb It's just all so ridiculous.
Eleanor Lamb I'd think it was funny if I weren't living it.
standalonehuman: (TogusaHunh)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-08 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa We're back on that idea of mine that everyone hates, that Retrospec can somehow read the data ghost of an individual.
Hitori Togusa Or soul or DNA or fingerprinting or whatever you want to call it. They have a way of measuring the individuality of a person and can alter what you see based on it.
Hitori Togusa Which sounds ridiculous, but it's what we're seeing.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Distant and considering.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-10 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb You're never going to sell me on data ghosts.
Eleanor Lamb It just sounds like something out of a cartoon.
Eleanor Lamb There are other ways they could be tracking us...probably.
Eleanor Lamb For all we know they have some kind of DNA scanner. A large scale one.
standalonehuman: (TogusaConcerned)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-10 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa To be completely fair, it has only ever been a theory, even among computer scientists.
Hitori Togusa But let's go with DNA, okay. Ignore for a second the question of how are they even reading DNA without physical contact with the person they're reading?
Hitori Togusa Why? Are we that dangerous? Why not physically isolate us from everybody else, then, instead of just this strange social isolation?
notyourutopian: (Frustrated)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-11 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb Well, we aren't actually that far off from remote DNA scanners.
Eleanor Lamb It's mostly just a question of resolution at this point.
Eleanor Lamb But I don't know why. I guess just to keep track of their guinea pigs.
standalonehuman: (TogusaUhhh)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-12 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa Wait, really?
Hitori Togusa No no, time out, how does that even work? Without a physical sample to take?
Hitori Togusa You at least need skin flakes or something.
notyourutopian: (Default)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-12 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb You do.
Eleanor Lamb Well, kind of. It's more a question of how far away from your 'sample' you need to be.
Eleanor Lamb They have devices that let you do a DNA scan on your smartphone with an intact sample
Eleanor Lamb If that is getting out to the public, and we're usually ten years or so behind military technology then...
standalonehuman: (TogusaOhComeTheFuckOn)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-12 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is a lot of typing and then deleting as Togusa is trying to put a lid on his swearing.]

Hitori Togusa Well. Isn't. That. Great.
Hitori Togusa It actually is, because we had no idea if it was even possible for them to be getting our DNA until this.
Hitori Togusa But, this is frustrating, because I again ask why they're bothering to do this with a social media app? Put this thing on bank cards, financial information, go make a ton of money. What's the end game here?
notyourutopian: (Default)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-14 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb I think it is. Just because it can be abused doesn't mean it's not a cool new technology.
Eleanor Lamb I don't know why, though. Maybe we're an easier test group to get at than we think.
standalonehuman: (TogusaFrustrated)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-14 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa Content. They want us to keep putting in content. Whatever it is they're doing, for some damn reason, they need outside input from us. Even if it's garbage. Especially if it's garbage.
Hitori Togusa One second, everything makes sense, and then I don't understand it at all anymore.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (*sigh*)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-15 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb I guess that's not much different from writing stuff for my blog.
Eleanor Lamb Except for the crazy memories and the world going odd.
standalonehuman: (TogusaCoffeeWork)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-05-16 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa This isn't something that we're going to figure all the way out tonight.
Hitori Togusa Thanks, though, for listening. It helps out to bounce ideas off of other people.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Distant and considering.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-05-17 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Eleanor Lamb Sure.
Eleanor Lamb Makes me think we'll figure it out eventually at least.