Pokemon Go Normalizing DARPA's "Minority Report" Scenario?

[Naga_Fireball]

Don't get me wrong. I fking love Pokemon and have loved it for probably 20 years of my life.

But i read all about DARPA and the red balloons craze a few years back. How people scrambled at the chance to engage in dynamic geocaching.

Trulia is already sending emails whoring out its real estate Pokemon cheat map.

The game is seemingly tied to actual landmarks.
My concern being the number of cameras walking down main street and hiding active, persistent surveillance in the guise of a harmless game.

Those of you who have seen Tom Cruise in Minority Report know exact what i mean when I say dynamic geocaching, surveillance and cyberstalking.


Our kids are being trained by a game we all grew up loving to be cyberstalkers and part of the surveillance grid. Ofc that's a huge IMO with grain of salt.


A kid walking past me caught a Jynx today. Later I realized we were standing across from a salon. Jynx is a highly sexualized pokemon with huge lips and tits and blond hair. Just like the picture on the salon where he caught it. Lmfao.



Another thing to consider is grid density and whether people are on a "soft" or hard connection. Soft meaning WiFi , hard being a leg chip or ankle bracelet. Lol


Modern world is so insane and interesting.

[Naga_Fireball]

The otger day I read part of a tech article that said software existed capable of turning a phone's accelerometer into a password sniffer ie auditory keylogger. It was apparently stunningly accurate.

[Naga_Fireball]

Could one of you experts vet this reddit for me:

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Pokemon Go is now out for iOS and Android, and was released 7/7/16. It was created by Niantic, Inc., which was founded by the Keyhole, Inc. founder John Hanke. Keyhole Inc. was funded by Sony & Nvidia, along with a nice chunk of money coming from the CIA's venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, with In-Q-Tel receiving the majority of funding from the National Geospatial Agency. The NGA was formerly known as NIMA, the National Imaging and Mapping Agency, until 2003. The NGA's primary focus is mapping Geospatial Intelligence, or GEOINT. Geospatial Intelligence is intelligence about human activity on earth derived from the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information that describes, assesses, and visually depicts physical features and geographical referenced activities on the Earth.

I checked out the NGA.mil website, the main page had an ad for what looked to be some type of Holo-Lens over a girl's face, advertising their magazine they publish. I'm sure they publish that for all their employees, not for general public to know (although it's free to read on their site, just not a popular publication since only NGA probably knows about it, and the few people that lurked onto the site accidentally).

So Niantic/Pokemon Go is basically a front for Geospatial Intelligence gathering, just like the former Ingress from the same company (which wasn't as hugely popular as the Pokemon intellectual property, basically every 90's kid with a capable smart phone is out playing this). If they need pictures for a specific area updated, they don't have to send any agents/employees. They just spawn a rare Pokemon and someone using the app will take some pictures for them... The Privacy Policy for Pokemon Go is a also bit Orwellian.

What are your guys thoughts on this application? Just a new Augmented Reality (AR) game, or GEOINT Agency wet dream?

EDIT: I found these sources (links from Wikipedia I found) and figured others may find this stuff interesting: Describes John Hanke & Google connections: http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/insid ... a-man.html

On Google's Military-Industrial Complex, describes Google's acquisition of Keyhole Inc. & funding from In-Q-Tel: https://pando.com/2014/03/07/the-google ... e-complex/

EDIT 2: Interesting video of Niantic Labs CEO, giving his "Adventures on Foot" speech: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lj9vBhfIGM[/youtube]

[Naga_Fireball]

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[Hermit]

If you download the radar app for it, your now part of the game itself: your home becomes a potential pokemon location.

Ok, ok, I'm guilty. I downloaded it and played it for 3 days. It's strangely addictive, and kind of fun!

But it's not gardening. And it's not a book. I think I maybe came from the generation before just in time to have missed becoming totally possessed of the shiny, happy, sparkly cell phone syphilis. Then again, I rely pretty heavy on my phone. But I suspect I could probably live without it.

[Christine]

Lady Naga_Fireball,

I fixed your post because I feel it is super intelligent and well researched. There is no way this is anything other than a further roll out of the "gaming of humanity". We are preparing to do a video on this subject soon, more money is now being fed into the gaming industry than Hollywood movies, that ought to say a lot.

No it isn't gardening, it is harvesting of souls here ... While those of us that have sane interests, years of investigation into the matrix reality, deep inner gnosis with the love and respect for truth and beauty, well we are most likely the antibodies to the transhumanist agenda. For those who are not aware are easy prey and it is those to whom our voices may be heard. The children are the objective here, they always are, aren't they?

[Phil]

Yeah that's what gets lost in all the paranoia of he tracking and information security delusions, you don't "agree" to give up any "rights" you had to privacy, that shit's been long gone way before the pokie-craze

It's just an evolution of gaming, which I am definitely a sorta recovering addict myself, the horrid side effect being feeling hypocritical trying (relatively unsusccessfully) to limit my kids' shiny rectangle time.

I sure as hell don't know how people raised kids without phones, especially single parents...I am definitely dependent.

[Phil]

To be fair...video games are art these days, hopefully the messages/information/beauty/creativity put in to them by the designers and artists and story tellers is more effective than whatever other horrid shit is piped into our brains

[Naga_Fireball]

Christine, omg. Thank you. I've been tired and the phone is slower than ever this month.

Phil, I agree. What i am seeing is a trend. Our art form can be hijacked to indoctrinate and condition kids.

For example. I love playing skyrim offline, its what I have. But it promotes stealing killing and gangs. And for whatever reason these features ensure my interest. You see. The game feeding my predisposition to prey rather than educate.

To prey rather than help each other.

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Also the things included with games. Like Chat channels in Wow where kids use it for hate speech Lol... Ffs.

And this Pokemon go. Of course its super addictive innovative and fun.

But like a parasite, what else is it bringing along? The need to stare at the screen, to wait for the ping, I see the e-Leash getting very tight on the necks of our kids.

Even the pocket size gameboy was like crack for my personality type at age 12. Now "everyone is doing it" etc.

Its like wearing a coca cola shirt. Walking down the street playing that. Its all the advertisement they need and the interactive element is quite frightening.

Just another database @@ and holding tank for human potential

[Naga_Fireball]

I understand the skepticism.

But to me some of these larger issues are like nuts hanging from a tree. Anyone can see that it's a nut with food inside (the point).

But depending on demand, ie the taste of the times, not everyone is going to want to risk the backlash of cracking the nut.

We all have nutcrackers, the mind, independent largely of personality, that can be turned onto these issues.

There are many layers and levels of participation and indulgence due to modern technology.