They're both evil. The differences are superficial and aesthetic. Two heads of the same beast. The machine that enables them is the problem, but it's mostly invisible to people. I'm very tired.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    Opsec is barely even possible anymore. Your phone tracks you everywhere. Counterintelligence software correlates those movements, combines them with other metadata, then determines who is a likely "Threat". The algorithm says you're a person of interest, and if it gets kicked up high enough they come for you. They don't even have a file on you anymore. They have a packet of semi-anonymous data and that data has a threat rating and if enough things happen to boost that threat rating they flag you for disposal and drop a hellfire missile on you.