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gmaxwell kanzure: so ... yea, there have been people on IRC engaging in very elaborate trolling. I don't know that this knoweldge is actually useful.
11:23 PM kanzure thanks that's just going to make me more paranoid
11:23 PM there was this one person who genuinely thought that i had enough knowledge of cryonics to revive his mother from the dead (well, from cryonic storage)
11:23 PM (on irc)
11:24 PM gmaxwell E.g. for a long time there was a many nicked regular in #bitcoin who would start the most complex technical arguments, and it was very clear that he was pasting lines from IRC into goggle and that rapidly converting whatever came out into an argument.
11:24 PM fenn is it time for realtime deanonymization algorithms?
11:25 PM kanzure right, drop a link to a site with a js tracking library i guess
11:25 PM fenn just ngram frequency analysis
11:25 PM gmaxwell I only know this for sure because he was really good at driving me nuts, because the arguments would start off pretty sane and then it would become clear that he didn't know what the #@#$ he was talking about... eventually I got the hypothesis he was basically performing some kind of search madlibs and I gave him some techno jibberish only to get a response clearly constructed from the google result for it.
11:27 PM fenn was it xmj
11:27 PM gmaxwell realizing that this guy (in his multitude of identities) was one person was a material improvement to my mental well being (e.g. after that I went back through the logs and picked up the common subnet and common quit messages, and felt much saner). I don't think knowing that he was doing some kind of crazy google madlibs actually improved anything for me.