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Like the first one comparing the puzzles registration flow to the holocaust? WTF.
It was an example of seemingly innocuous compliance with "please provide us with your personal info, we promise we won't do anything bad with it!" leading to horrific consequences.
So did he ever get spam at the fake address?
Mr Puzzle did a set of videos exploring the flaws of the ISIS Orb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0sCGotCw2Y The Mr Puzzle channel as a whole is highly recommended if you're into puzzles of this sort.
Or even if you're not, I found that video highly entertaining. :)
> And they know something much more important: every one of these people was affluent enough (or knew someone affluent enough) to spend a three-digit sum on a puzzle in the middle of the worst economic downturn in living memory. Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continu…
Article is from 2009.
> And they know something much more important: every one of these people was affluent enough (or knew someone affluent enough) to spend a three-digit sum on a puzzle in the middle of the worst economic downturn in living memory. Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continu…
If you were 5 in 1938, you'd be 85 today. And your memories of the Depression probably wouldn't be that good.
The older you were in the Depression, the more dead you are now.
> And they know something much more important: every one of these people was affluent enough (or knew someone affluent enough) to spend a three-digit sum on a puzzle in the middle of the worst economic downturn in living memory. Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continu…
> I would hardly consider the Great Depression to be out of "living memory" If you were 5 in 1938, you'd be 85 today. And your memories of the Depression probably wouldn't be that good. The older you were in the Depression, the more dead you are now.
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Isis was an Egyptian goddess before her name got coopted by a terrorist group.
My brother adopted a dog a few years back named Isis (after the Egyptian god). Even though Isis now had a very different connotation, they felt bad to change the dog's name. They recently adopted another dog which I jokingly recommended they name Al Qaeda.
It's a shame that the multimillenial name of an ancient god could be ruined for some people by an organization that lasted less than a decade, I hope this effect doesn't last.
The puzzle website is obviously dead, but the domain is still registered: isisadventure.com. Good luck to anyone doing anything with that domain
the domain is registered by info@chinacapital.com, which registered over 500 domains, 2 of them marked malicious. the cisco umbrella risk of the domain is 77, medium