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Lonestar ([personal profile] pathkin) wrote in [community profile] piper902020-04-19 07:50 pm

001 [TEXT] [LOCKED TO NEW HIRES ONLY]

[The screens of the New Hires flicker with a text message. The image of a starburst briefly flashes on the screen, alone in an empty sky.]


[The screen that pops up changes the way the network interface usually looks. It makes it a bit more surreptitious, so that pencilneck looking over their shoulders would think they're using an innocuous data entry program. There's also a panic button in the corner that they can hit to shut their connection down early.]

[The program makes their comms connection even slower, since the network's already running at terrible speed, but at least it's discreet. And resources have been devoted to at least making the panic button shut down fast if they need it.]

[The post is a text post, and where the posters name should be it says: ┖⍟ϗϵ₮αℜ]

Evening, ladies and gents and variations thereupon, the name's Lonestar.

None of us have all day and I'm not the type for melodrama about how big brother's eyes are watching, so I'm going to keep this to the point. I'm a New Hire like you and want us to get out of here as much as most of you all likely want to leave

With these internal shock collars, getting free is most likely going to be difficult. And a long-term, coordinated effort. But to coordinate, we need ways of communicating Jorgmund can't see.

I've created this program to let us encrypt and filter our conversations away from Jorgmund. It just auto uploaded and self-executed to your comms but you can quickly uninstall it any time if you need to be extra cautious.

[A link appears on the screen to some kind of drop box type interface, containing a file.]

That link will let you download the installation file so that it can be saved and dispersed by any New Hires to any future kidnapping victims even if I'm found out and killed.

Locked posts will have a small signifier noting they're locked, an innocuous interface that mimics a notepad application Jorgmund has on our comms, and a panic button to cut off the connection and boot you out of the interface in case a Jorgmund staffer is looking over your shoulder.

However, while it can encrypt our conversations, it can't mask overall network usage so we'll need to keep maintaining non-locked conversations about whatever inane topics make for good public discussion. The resources the encrypted posts use are minimal, so as long as unlocked traffic occurs, it should be able to mask our more discreet conversations.

[That means they must shitpost like their lives depend on it.]

I know that you have good reason to not be inclined to trust me, but the only reason I'm hiding my identity is so any potential snitches can't report me to Jorgmund so I get "fired."

Possibly out of cannon.

The encryption will let any of you go anon, too, in case people want to play spy and drop something useful that Jorgmund would get in a snit about. As much as it'd be helpful to all hold hands and sing happy songs, we don't know if anyone here might brown nose and snitch for their own benefit.

Anon posting and replies can only happen in locked post because Jorgmund doesn't have it enabled on our normal network posts.

Oh, also, there seems to be script for a swearing filter on normal network posts. In locked posts, you can say "fuck" all you want.
bringinghopewithme: (FIGJAM)

[personal profile] bringinghopewithme 2020-04-20 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I know what I'm doing, you know what I'm doing, just admit you've never been anywhere but the top of the food chain and let's get on with our lives. It's always "hooo you're gonna get eaten, you're gonna get worn" like I haven't heard either one every other day of eternity. Just be a little creative, that's all I ask, when you're speculating on my death, whether you're tryin to cause it or not. Honestly an actual joke about anything other than me getting eaten or worn might actually throw me off my game enough for someone to almost get a shot in.
turntex: (Default)

anon

[personal profile] turntex 2020-04-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
if i tell you ive been hunted and killed by a dog before will that make you feel better
Edited 2020-04-20 04:31 (UTC)
bringinghopewithme: (error)

[personal profile] bringinghopewithme 2020-04-20 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
It will not.

That's an awful way to go. I'm very sorry.

[that a dead person is typing to him doesnt surprise him enough to comment on.]
turntex: (Default)

anon

[personal profile] turntex 2020-04-20 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[At least someone around here can roll with the punches.]

its fine i got better
anyway you seem alright
hope you dont die
bringinghopewithme: (like two fleas arguin who owns the dog)

[personal profile] bringinghopewithme 2020-04-20 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. Same to you, mate.

[would it be indelicate to question the whole "got better" thing via anonymous message? Maybe? Things Bunny never thought about before.]