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posted ago by sleepydude ago by sleepydude +35 / -0

A report on the radio today got me thinking. They said there is an underground effort to find survivors in the basement under the condo and that it is flooded right now.

Underground? Flooded?

Hear me out...

You're John McAfee. You find out the DeepState have an underground HQ/server space under a condo in Miami. You might be the only one to know. You hatch a plan to screw with them.

  • You rent a condo in the building, put an independent copy of your dead man's switch in the condo hidden such that EMF readers and the like can't detect it (faraday cage).

  • Announce you've done so on Twitter as a big "Come at me, bro" shitpost.

  • Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Consider what the DeepState would have to do. They would have to clean-sweep the building many other dumbfounded families live in and risk revealing the HQ in the basement when the local news covers it. They have to tip their hand to challenge you.

Even if they did start to raid the building, or send agents disguised as maintenance men to each condo to search for the switch, it might send something out if it is disturbed. The dead man's switch could have a dead man's switch.

You'd have to go scorched earth on the building, which also means sacrificing the HQ underneath. How do you know for sure the madman didn't manage to hack an HQ computer and install the dead man's switch on your own network? You don't know, which means fire-sale -- Everything. Must. Go.

In that way, McAfee may have been able to take out an HQ with a single hard drive. Even better, he could have forced them to blow up their own stuff. Not too shabby a goal for a master troll.

Trump and the Patriots wouldn't want that potential loss of life, but McAfee wouldn't probably care that much.

Thoughts?