This is Pat Ryan of cultstate.com (and Isaac Kappy fame).
TLDR: The blackmail 'industry' goes back millennia. Cameras and photography changed the game, starting with Queen Victoria.
Details everything required to produce blackmail: equipment, crew, victim procurers, "cleanup" crews, security, etc. Puts you in the blackmail owners' shoes.
Where is the weak link? How do you disrupt the blackmail industry? If the blackmail is published, value is lost. Make tons of deep fakes of powerful people in snuff films and publish them everywhere. Real blackmail indistinguishable from fake stuff, real blackmail loses value.
Edit: The catch? If all the blackmail is published, then all the puppets' strings are cut - and some of them are unstable, with access to nukes. So you have to be very careful how you cut the puppet strings.
Forgot to add: if all the blackmail is published, then all the puppets' strings are cut - and some of them are unstable, with access to nukes. So you have to be very careful how you cut the puppet strings.
When the market banks fail no more money for bribes...the birds will sing
This is Pat Ryan of cultstate.com (and Isaac Kappy fame).
TLDR: The blackmail 'industry' goes back millennia. Cameras and photography changed the game, starting with Queen Victoria.
Details everything required to produce blackmail: equipment, crew, victim procurers, "cleanup" crews, security, etc. Puts you in the blackmail owners' shoes.
Where is the weak link? How do you disrupt the blackmail industry? If the blackmail is published, value is lost. Make tons of deep fakes of powerful people in snuff films and publish them everywhere. Real blackmail indistinguishable from fake stuff, real blackmail loses value.
Edit: The catch? If all the blackmail is published, then all the puppets' strings are cut - and some of them are unstable, with access to nukes. So you have to be very careful how you cut the puppet strings.
Forgot to add: if all the blackmail is published, then all the puppets' strings are cut - and some of them are unstable, with access to nukes. So you have to be very careful how you cut the puppet strings.
Good point!