Scattered conspiracy thoughts (June 21, 2022)

Here are some scattered background ideas for my future work.

Somewhere from r/conspiracy

Sometime tried to contact Barely Sociable with these via a Barely Sociable subreddit or a Twitter reply, shortly after he released Part 1 of “Dark Side of the Music Industry”.

This website has a page (that lacks HTTPS!) about the Tavistock Institute.

Also, this Reddit comment mentioned the Port Arthur massacre and somehow it was related to Tavistock.

This seems like an inspiration for The Network's reach via shell corporations, but that's it. This sort of reminds me of Corvadt.

I read some of the Port Arthur massacre, but nothing from that page on the Tavistock. There was too much to read, which usually doesn't discourage me from reading about obscure topics on Wikipedia. However, the writing seemed to be rather dense.

The Missing 411 conspiracy hypothesis

David Paulides is actually the lead you must search for in order to get the Missing 411 conspiracy hypothesis.

Lowkey I'm pretty sure Kane Pixels is probably using this conspiracy hypothesis as an inspiration for his interpretation on The Backrooms.

Dangerous companies to work for

I have two for the backstory of Confidential Engineering Teacher, but I'm sure there are many, many more companies that are dilutions of the GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory.

The only practical and working issue (which is not fundamental) is that it is all too easy to become a crank when you read too much of these conspiracy hypotheses.

Anyways, let's explore the two, in no particular order.

(Hey, it's a list of 2. There aren't that many permutations for an ordered list of two items, which is the desired binary operation here — on the other hand, the binary operation of combination is incorrect because order doesn't matter in combinations and yields significantly smaller results than permutations for a fixed pair for total $n$ and choosing $k$ when $k \le n$. I'm not your abstract algebra text book or lecturer — read Wikipedia or your precalculus text book from high school if you want to look up this math reference. Otherwise, this lengthy comment can be ignored.)

Don't believe me? This is so lowkey real that even Mental Floss, which isn't even a crank website, has an article on this.

Oh, also the economist Daniel Ellsberg (yes, so Ellsberg was actually an intelligent person — the same man who leaked the Pentagon Papers which eventually brought about the resignation of Nixon) worked at RAND.

Yeah, so not a company I want to work at.

I'm not sure how I feel about Mitre maintaining a CVE list. At least I trust Google and Trend Micro a little to disclose vulnerabilities as the middleman with an effective dead man switch if companies fail to respond to the responsible disclousre — but not by that much more. At least Mitre isn't scummy like Zerodium.

(I learned all of this from listening to or reading transcripts of Darknet Diaries.)

Here's a Forbes article (with dynamically generated /?sh=... tracker suffix).

I find this dynamically generated suffix to be rather questionable, so simply read the same article captured on archive.today, while still having the tracker prefix is still better because this is a “static” capture. Even if it were somehow still “active”, at least the tracker would be the same for all viewing this article via archive.today.

This defeats the pragmatic definition of online tracking — what's the use of a tracker if everyone has the same one? Basically, the “I'm Spartacus” film Spartacus or everyone dressing up like V at the end to overthrow the oppressive government in the comic and film are perfect visual metaphors for how online anonymity is supposed to work.

Anyways, you're probably wondering: where's the conspiracy part of Mitre?

I'm getting to that right now.

The unsolved murder of John P. Wheeler III is probably being targeted working for Mitre.

At least this was categorized as a murder on the official papers of authorities, since Wheeler III was Caucasian. (I swear this isn't a bout of superficial wokeism.) Women and people of color tend to get this sort of sus activity as a “suicide” or “accident”... which is what Agent 47 of the Hitman games would never allow to happen, whose canonical MO is to make every contract look like a perfectly normal accident.

I might actually get a kick out of watching this episode of Unsolved Mysteries... because I'm open minded to more than just murders: disappearances also count. I do watch a lot of YouTube channels that dabble in this area, so why not?