[Safe] And here are the two frames extracted to two separate images. Anyone with epilepsy should be able to view this without issues. http://imgur.com/a/kQTQc
If I remember correctly, this was the one: https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1482/29/148229548198... (beware, it blinks ;P)
YIKES, that's using like the minimum frame delay! [Unsafe] Here's a mirror in case it goes down: http://i.imgur.com/Qi6tSit.gif [Safe] And here are the two frames extracted to two separate images. Anyone with epilepsy should be able to view this without issues. http://imgur.com/a/kQTQc
It won't blink as fast when played in the Twitter website or app. Twitter automatically converts it to a video when you post it, and there's a bit of a delay between every loop when you loop a video, as compared to a GIF.
> I'm saying that unless they have a confession from the defendant that he was trying to kill this guy, or his diary dictating that, which they should include in the story were that the case, then this is just stupid. If that was the standard for a criminal prosecution, we'd rarely convict anyone. > The presidence this case might set forth is terrifying. It provides a never before seen limitless weaponization of the…
Every response is karma suicide, however, I am obviously referring to this exact specific case.. One would traditionally assume that posting a gif is not a crime, no matter the gif (with a few exceptions in the law such as certain types of pornography), in THIS case, the person I am responding to claims it is a crime because of the intent. And the precedent I am discussing is apparently whether or not posting a 'gif'…
> Does intent dictate criminality here?
Yes.
> Is it a crime to email those to a person who enjoys optical illusions, has severe panic disorder and ptsd, and several heart conditions?
Maybe, it depends. In any case if your intent was pure but you're just stupid the case brought against you in the event of a mishap would be one of negligence.
Yeah, if you try to _literally kill someone over the internet_ and you think any lawful company is going to fight a warrant for your data, you've got another thing coming.
It feels like people still minimize pretty awful actions when they happen over the internet. Imagine someone running up to someone with epilepsy in public and showing them strobes? What sort of deranged person does that? Imagine someone sending death threats through snail mail over and over. Of course that's horrific! But brigaders doing it through twitter is kinda fine because "hey, you're on twitter, stupid stuff h…
Yeah, I found that I was doing this myself. I think it's because I was always posing myself the what-ifs of "well, you could just be accidentally sending something that would trigger it...", but the law can deal with intent where most software and programing problems simply can't. Where it is clear the intent was to cause harm, we should absolutely treat these things with as much seriousness as any other attempt to harm another person.
YIKES, that's using like the minimum frame delay! [Unsafe] Here's a mirror in case it goes down: http://i.imgur.com/Qi6tSit.gif [Safe] And here are the two frames extracted to two separate images. Anyone with epilepsy should be able to view this without issues. http://imgur.com/a/kQTQc
It won't blink as fast when played in the Twitter website or app. Twitter automatically converts it to a video when you post it, and there's a bit of a delay between every loop when you loop a video, as compared to a GIF.
Ah, right, good point. (It's mildly amusing that the affidavit went to such lengths to describe GIFs, when nowadays it's really a webm or mp4.)
It seems that either twitter has vacuumed up any copies of the gif from their website, or google reverse image search has removed all/has no indexed copies of it on site:twitter.com. (I don't exactly want to upload the gif to twitter to test it...)
Every response is karma suicide, however, I am obviously referring to this exact specific case.. One would traditionally assume that posting a gif is not a crime, no matter the gif (with a few exceptions in the law such as certain types of pornography), in THIS case, the person I am responding to claims it is a crime because of the intent. And the precedent I am discussing is apparently whether or not posting a 'gif'…
> Does intent dictate criminality here? Yes. > Is it a crime to email those to a person who enjoys optical illusions, has severe panic disorder and ptsd, and several heart conditions? Maybe, it depends. In any case if your intent was pure but you're just stupid the case brought against you in the event of a mishap would be one of negligence.
Ok, I know nothing about law, but if that is the case, and we agree that an overseas ten year old kid could successfully distribute the images referenced in this case, to thousands of epileptics with a handful of fake social network accounts targeting online communities for epileptics on websites that auto-play gif's, with intentions to kill them, and zero chance of ever getting caught through investigation, than the only logical solution would be to temporarily shut down the internet until we find a solution; I can only imagine the fallout as soon as these terrorist organizations get word of these articles. Clearly this is many times more dangerous than firearms are, and there is zero regulation and virtually limitless access for everyone on earth. I'm not going to try and find statistics, but I'm willing to bet that posting an image to maybe hurt people you can't and have never seen, people that are hardly tangible, especially to a child, who have never exhibited any sort of actual tangible human actions in response to other, less drastic attacks (such as name calling) has got to be hundreds of times easier to rationalize and commit to for a child, or anyone, than it is for a child to choose to use a firearm on another human. When a child touches a gun without permission, all humans exhibit immediate terror, most young kids are probably afraid of guns, yet we have extreme regulations on those, however, children start using the internet on tablets and phones often before their first birthday. Companies that auto-play gif's and have had multiple reports of such images, should be held accountable, along with many others.
My SO is a specialist nurse. She takes screenshots of everything under the sun. She finds it easier to quickly look up screenshots than load a bookmark or even find her own research notes. When I asked about it, she said all the other nurses and doctors do it too and that's where she picked it up.
Yeah, makes sense. Bookmark == pointer to bytes, Screenshot == bytes. If the bytes could save someone's life (or N doctor visits, or even 5 saved minutes), quite worthwhile to keep a copy. Same principal as pinboard.in's archiving, except comes stock on nearly every phone.
Interesting, though, because screenshots aren't searchable.
If you want to be anonymous on the internet and you are doing this for immediate and spontaneous reasons my advice to you would be to forget about whatever you were planning, likely you will not manage to maintain your anonymity. If you have a lot of knowledge in this field and a fair amount of time to prepare you may be able to pull it off but chances are you will still get a detail wrong somewhere and find yourself…
I always figured if you had to do something illegal go to a public library you've never been to before and only use a computer once and never use it again. Also disguise yourself when you go. That being said you wouldn't be able to login to anything like twitter and you can't continue your actions very easily.
Fingerprints?
Surveillance camera(s) in the street tracking you to you parking your car?
Forgot not to take your cell phone?
Did it ring while you were in the library? Did you answer if it did?
Is it the city/town that you live in?
Did you talk to anybody while you were there?
Do you speak the language natively?
Do you have any accent that might stand out?
Did you go during office hours?
Male or female?
How big a city/town was this in anyway?
Another 100 items or so?
See, it is so easy to forget something, and that's before getting into any fancy CSI stuff.