- Offers incentives for you to go to certain places
- Can access your GPS and camera
If I ran the CIA, I'd fund this game too.
Imagine you get word that the Russian embassy in some country just updated their security hardware, or some power plant just got a new fence and guard post. Well, you throw down a rare Pikachu next to that building, and 20 kids show up with GPS enabled smartphones. Suddenly the CIA has an updated photo map of the entire area, and the lone security guard standing outside can't do shit before they all run off to catch the next Pokemon.
Post your face when the CIA is farming out spy work to unwitting gamers.
>>80931044
Oh no cia is watching me pick my nose while sitting on the toilet.
>>80931044
If you're outside most of the time, all the CIA sees is sidewalks, trees, buildings so why would they waste their time??
http://www.infowars.com/pokemon-go-linked-to-cia/
It's certainly possible. As much as I'd hate to admit that the bat shit insane Alex Jones might be right yet again, it definitely looks that way.
- Offers convenient and free web search
- Can access all your search history and track what websites you go to with ads
If I ran the CIA, I'd fund Google too. (they did)
How does the pokemon placement work? Is it just randomly generated or not?
>>80931845
It's random, but uses map data to try to place them in public places. It would be trivial to inject a pokemon in a desired place, though, since it all happens server side.
>>80931377
Did you even read OP's post? He's not saying it's to spy on regular people. He's saying that it could be used to have the civilian population take pictures of sensitive locations by placing pokemon there
>>80931389
>bat shit Alex Jones is right
What does it say about the state of our world if the truth seems bat shit insane to us
>>80932401
If the CIA wanted to see sensitive locations of communities across the world, I'm sure they wouldn't need to rely on a Japanese pokemon game. Anon pls, they are more sophisticated than that.
>>80931389
Infowars? Pretty much means that it isn't true then.
Case closed, guys.
>>80932341
Do players share the same map data? If one guy sees a pokemon by a tree would another guy down the street see that pokemon too?
What's the rarest pokemon seen so far?
>>80932961
>Case closed, goyims.
>>80931044
So they would get some public information that anyone could walk up to and look at. who cares?
>>80932401
>take pictures of sensitive locations
>with a cell phone
>from a public location that anyone could stand at
So why use pokemon? The "spy" can just take the picture with his camera without there ever needing to be a pokemon placed 150ft nearby.
They can already ger all that without the app
>>80934238
>Case closed, stupid americans
>>80932961
>Case closed, guys.
Exgellend :DD
Thank you greatest ally
>>80931268
>be too lazy to read what allowances you're giving to a program
>give the CIA legal access to all of your emails, contacts, personal information which can be used against you
=>>80931044
Why spend millions of dollars on a game when some shitter with a pair of binoculars could do better?
>>80933687
If one person sees a Pikachu, everyone sees the Pikachu. It can be caught by everyone, too, so it's not first come first serve. Just about every pokemon has been found, but people will definitely flock to the rare ones. If a Lapras is placed in the middle of a busy area, you can potentially expect a hundred people to flock there.
>>80931044
CIA? No. Google? Absolutely. They not only get location data but users' photographs when capturing pokemon in AR mode. That way they can map areas where those Google cars can't go (parks, interiors of buildings, etc.).
>>80931044
I guess Pokemon Go is better and cheaper than billion dollar spy satellites.
>>80935375
Cool. What sort of landmarks are on the game map? Pokemon, and then Pokestops and Gyms? Is there anyway to explore the map online without the game? My phone can't run it and I've heard chatter that my family's business is a stop and there have been random people sitting in the parking lot. There has to be some tool like this since a lot of people are talking about businesses telling people to fuck off for loitering.
>>80931044
we can look at this ourselves. lets forget for a time the manchildren and focus on the teenagers
teenagers are at the age they like tribalism. however, its not been avable to majority of teenagers and the minority has their own tribalism actions in their own areas. now thanks to this pokemon app, teenagers can link themselves to tribe of one of the tree teams. this can be if wanted to escalate things into level of teenagers attacking each other, but that requires right enviroiment and taunts. the teen must be at the phase of
>taking the tribalism seriously
>bad mood(of lack of nourishments)
>given the feel agression is okay(the child in the past always got their way, even when angry)
>provokation from other team(extreme dislike towards the team)
also i looked at the pokemon own website
>Players can spend real money on PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon GO. PokéCoins can then be exchanged for power-ups, extra items, and other enhancements
what this means they can taunt people to waste money, here is example
>the app notices you do not have pokepalls avable
>spawn more rare pokemon near you
>now if you want the pokemon you have to spend real life money on pokeballs to aquire it or you might not get it
>>80931044
100%, with the caveat that we don't know who precisely benefits. That's irrelevant though, it's most certainly going to be used for distributed intelligence networking (DINdu). It's pretty genius actually and is an example of how we must operate at the top of our game. We're up against it.
As long as I get a Vulpix, I don't care
>>80934552
>>80934602
It's not about the fact that they already can do it, it's about speed of information gathering as well as cost-effectiveness.
With this app, you have local on-the-ground assets everywhere around the world, you don't need to send agents anymore, and you don't need to verify their loyalty.
It's also fast, 15 minutes later and you already have fresh surveillance photos. It's also nearly free. How can any other country's local intelligence programs compete with one that operates on zero cost? They can't.
>>80936289
Words of a person with no purpose in life. Stay focused because if Trollary gets into office, or #BLM terrorists like #Deray4Treason have their way, you won't have food let alone some game faggotry.
>>80936434
Anon gets it.
>>80936474
it's called a fucking joke
>>80935315
because this
>>80936434
>>80931044
>Pokemon Go = CIA Distributed Intelligence Network?
"oh, here we go the hourly shitposting/conspiracy thread about two links they happened to stumble upon"
>Offers incentives for you to go to certain places
>Can access your GPS and camera
oh fuck
crowd sourcing intelligence
/pol/ we have been stepped-down, senpais
>>80936434
You can already do that using the same internet Nintendo is using.
OH FUCK ME
NIANTIC (the dev of Pokemon Go) IS RUN BY THIS GUY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanke
HE WAS CEO OF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole,_Inc.
WHICH WAS FUNDED BY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency
IT'S FUCKING ON M8'S
THE TRAIL HAS BEEN FOLLOWED.
>>80931044
>>80931268
you pick your nose with your wiener?
>>80931044
>Suddenly the CIA has an updated photo map of the entire area, and the lone security guard standing outside can't do shit before they all run off to catch the next Pokemon.
And where were you when Google drove through every street in every town in the first world with 3D camera vans taking pictures for their map database?
Exactly. Shut the fuck up.
>>80936700
What did they mean by this?
>>80936594
Anyone with a brain can see right through the functional benefit of PG, if you're too dumb that's fine but don't take an oppositional position with name calling you look weakfag.
>>80931044
none of the pokemon are actually on the ground like in OPs picture. they are always mid air so you have to hold your phone up. i've also noticed that you have to pan around more to find the pokemon when you are indoors versus when you are outdoors. really makes you think...
>>80936051
What the fuck are you on about cunt
>>80931044
goes even further. Depending on OS you can even collect wlan information, use the microphone for area mapping. I don't know if this app has the necessary permissions for it but a smartphone that a threat actor can move around at will is scary useful.
>>80936700
>the guy involved with map technology made a geocaching game company based around GPS maps
Good, that means he's qualified.
>>80936857
We talked about it then too faggot your "argument" makes no sense shill.
>>80936994
Keyhole was intel agency backed faggot, learn a thing.
>>80935169
>implying anything in my email, contacts, or personal information could be used against me in any crime
Are you building bombs in your basement to use against the country and telling your friends through fucking email, of all things, ya cunt? Do you need to investigated relentlessly by CIA?
>>80931389
Oh Alex jones said it? Well shit, it must be true then. Man I hope they don't notice me filming the chemtraiils, I better buy some more of Alexs' water filters
>>80937056
BTW I was going to say "alphabet agency" instead of "intel agency" but then I thought of Google's move recently. Makes ya think...
>>80937005
I don't remember anyone giving nearly as much of a fuck about that as they do about Pokémon go. If you really think Pokémon go is a new level of privacy invasion you're retarded. Anything this app could collect has already been collected.
>>80937082
If you're fine with willingly giving up any and all forms of personal privacy then I pity you.
>>80936931
I'm serious
the CIA spending millions to spy on you masturbating to anime porn is horseshit
BUT
the CIA spending millions to create a WORLDWIDE, CHEAP, COMPLETELY DENIABLE and COVERT intelligence tool is a fucking stroke of geniuos
>>80935169
>be dumb enough to think they can't already access all of that
>>80936857
Google Maps is banned in China precisely because they suspected it was part of intelligence gathering.
>>80931044
>The CIA is using PokemonGO to spy on you!
>The CIA has been spying on us for years, so has google, microsoft, apple, amazon and a variety of other soulless megacorps. Why is this colorful app suddenly a problem?
>"what if"
I want midnight climax back, at least then there was an explination for everone suddenly losing their minds.
>>80936700
>was
>>80937300
This.
You really don't think the CIA wouldn't get access to your Gmail or your phone records if they wanted them?
>>80937152
>personal privacy
>probably uses google every day of his life
Sorry not all of us watch transsexuals and sissy boys on the internet, anon. As long as they leave my bank account, voicemail and freedoms alone I could care less.
>>80932961
*goys
>>80937385
Literally one of the NSA leaks was that they put a backdoor in angry birds to make getting access to your shit easier and cheaper for them.
Its not a zero sum game you retards.
>>80935169
Oh no the company partnered/invested in by Google can access my Gmail!
>>80936983
crashing this world with no survivors
>>80931044
>Can access your GPS and camera
What stopped them before? Practically everything you do with an internet connection is datamined anyway.
>>80931044
Or, let me hear out, or they just wait for the Google.map update
Wuah so CIA like Holy shit man
>>80931044
Instead of doing this stupid shit maybe they could just send one of their guys to take a pic instead?
>>80937082
>if you have nothing to hide then what are you afraid of ?
>>80937650
Which costs them less money and manpower?
hurr durr
>>80937739
>>Hurr send out people!
>Hurr nuh dey use pakeymon bcuz it b cheepr
>Not realizing that it takes prettymuch fucking nothing for the NSA/CIA to access your phone even before pokemon was a thing
>>80937344
They're not spying on you, they couldn't give a fuck about you, they're USING YOU AS A SPY. If they wanted to track a drug/weapons dealer, they might throw a rare pokemon next to where they suspect him to be, and you go to catch it through augmented reality on your phone, not realizing that as you're doing it your phone is transmitting surveillance photo/video of that dude in the background.
There will come a day when those drug dealers/terrorist will realize the threat this presents, and kill some innocent pokemonfag who wandered into the middle of nowhere trying to catch a Charizard.
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>>80937290
*the CIA spending millions to make YOU part of a WORLDWIDE, CHEAP, COMPLETELY DENIABLE and COVERT intelligence tool is a fucking stroke of geniuos
there have been diplomats playing it. There was that pic of that israeli diplomat-politician playing it. This is scary. This is a fucking masterpiece of deception.
crowd sourced science through videogames
crowd sourced image recognition through google captcha
and now crowd sourced intelligence through the pokeymans
>>80937882
Having access to your phone isn't enough, you need to direct a field agent to a target area.
Pokemon are the bait that lead you to that specific target area so they can then use your phone however they wish.
>>80936051
>Pokeyman is overpriced and a retarded waste of money
Please do tell more, great sage.
>>80931044
So do you think they've put a ton of nothing but rattata over zones like area 51 to ward off potential intruders?
>>80937650
>>80937882
the point is not the CIA being able to access your device
the point is the CIA making YOU go where they want, YOU aim the device at what they want to see
>>80931044
dude!
>that tin foil hat of yours
has just evolved my thinking
Has anyone tried looking at a packet capture?
>>80936933
Well thats a bunch of bullshit. As i played it as well, and certainly it was mostly on the floor, unless you are a manlet, then maybe they would be floating for you.
>>80937739
It wouldn't even save that much money compared to what they do now. In fact it would probably be a loss.
>>80938123
>>80938213
Oh, you mean that AR switch thing that you can turn off?
Really, do you scrubs even have any proof to back up your schizophrenic claims? Not every stupid fucking thing that's popular is a conspiracy to ruin you
>>80937739
>which one actually gets you the picture you need and which one gets you a picture of the ground or the inside of a pocket
you know that you can turn the AR off right? Not even every phone plays with the AR.
This whole idea is stupid as fuck and shows a complete lack of understanding of how phones, cameras, human beings, and the game itself work
>>80938398
I don't imagine there would be any data gathering at this time. It's still what one might call the "infection phase". After the game is widely adopted, and the hype has died down, and there is enough of a consistently large player base to mask suspicious activities, that would be the time to activate the intel gathering part. And even then it would be smart to do it with individual accounts, send 1 or 2 people to a sensitive area or to track the movements of a person of interest.
>>80931044
the cia as well as russia and china have had access to gps, cameras, email and microphones for at least a decade
>>80936700
>people in similar industries know each other and tend to work together
news at 11
>>80936815
>>80938136
we need to bring all the aspects related to pokemon go on the table, some that have been listed already
>aquired money
>aquired information of inviduals who willingly use the app
>aquired information of inviduals who do not willingly use the app(app helps to make line between those who can be manipulated and those who do not. if those who cannot be manipulated are small in number, they can be pin pointed out and later in the george orwell future, assasinated out
>manipulation of the masses
>manipulation of the young
and all of these can be used by those who want to mold the world to their liking, no matter how impossible it would be at the end, they still will make attempt at it
we can laugh now as it would be silly to think that someone is out there to get you, but all this information, such as leaked hillary emails only keeps confiming how vile some humans can be
Does your phone stream the video when you have the camera on?
>Auschwitz tourism center banned PoGo
lmao
>>80936051
>also i looked at the pokemon own website
>>Players can spend real money on PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon GO. PokéCoins can then be exchanged for power-ups, extra items, and other enhancements
>what this means they can taunt people to waste money, here is example
>>the app notices you do not have pokepalls avable
>>spawn more rare pokemon near you
>>now if you want the pokemon you have to spend real life money on pokeballs to aquire it or you might not get it
yeah except for:
>there are no notifications when you aren't on
>the game basically shits out items faster than you can use them
the reality is that they will definitely collect as much 3d data as possible and most likely that will be how this game makes money
does that mean are phones are being turned into bot-net surveillance devices?
not really, or not in the way retards in this thread are suggesting. Useful data they can get is stuff like how long it takes to walk from point A to B, fill in 3d maps of the world with angles that something like google map cars would not reach, and other kinds of demographic and environmental data
but hey, half the kids in here think the NSA and CIA are movie-tier organizations with unlimited resources, time, and technology
>>80937152
>pretending irrelevant data about unimportant civvies searching Porn is logged and ever used
Nah, that shit gets passed over and erased. It takes up space and bandwidth. ALL data that isn't important gets trashed. Only illegal and terrorist acts get flagged.
You're all retards acting like it's even logistically possible to monitor every citizen's network data. Programs already do it and they are literal 010101 codes that don't give a shit about anything but the illegal shit they're programmed to flag. EVERYTHING else is deleted, never to be seem by any Human.
>>80936434
>>80937290
But why would they need to fund some japanese videogame when they can just as well ask google for their data? Hell, I bet nowadays they can easily prepare for most field operations by just using Google maps and Streetview and sift through the pictures random people have already uploaded with geo data. I'm living in a pretty quiet suburb and even here some faggots uploaded pics of every single "interesting" landmark including park benches and field roads.
>Offers incentives for you to go certain places
damn this is really making me think OP.....
>>80939049
Samsung's hiding the spyware in the baseband chipset now too so there's literally nothing you can do, no amount of cyanogen mods can save that platform.
That really wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>80939049
Phones stream video even when the camera is "off", what did you think why you need to charge them so often?
>>80938736
they aren't omnipotent, you give them way more credit than they deserve
general encryption and security technology is pretty good, that's kind of the whole point of these organizations having to beg, bribe, or threaten tech companies into putting in flaws. That doesn't give them access to everything and it especially doesn't give them access to it whenever they want.
You've bought into the governments propaganda, good job.
>>80933687
>What's the rarest pokemon seen so far?
Thought to be exterminated many years ago, this one turned up recently in Poland.
>>80939229
>Useful data they can get is stuff like how long it takes to walk from point A to B
and the time when you use your pokemon app and when you do not
all we need is someone(CIA?) having all the information from different devices and apps, that one person uses and they know everything about that singular person
what makes me worry is that on top of that people often are quite similiar to each other, so one profile can help to make more proflies of people that are alike faster, which eventually leads to small group of people with no profiles made. then round up all the people who has no profiles made of, thanks to them being completely skeptical of goverment survellience and put bullet through their heads. why? because these people are dangerous towards the manipulative tyrants
its now or never, if masses stop caring, then we are finished
>>80939229
>movie-tier organizations with unlimited resources, time, and technology
thats why they need this kind of applications, it saves resources, time and improves technology through it
>>80931268
Not watching you... Using you as a spy drone... LoL
>>80937340
And now they just can't avoid it, with all the chinese people playing it... IF this is real, I can't but say that it's incredibly smart.
>>80939780
Pretty much. They might have access to all the data of a few hundred selected people, but even they cannot monitor everyone at all times. Even an encryption that can be cracked still takes time to do so.
>>80931044
Who cares lol
Gotta catch em all
>>80939133
Lmao
>>80940966
Ok you just went full tinfoil hat. Stop.
>>80941818
>>80941942
watch out the bogeyman is coming to get ya!
LADS
>>80941818
holy autism
>>80942023
Top kek
>>80935169
really made me think...
>>80942063
We already know that m8, but as the name indicates, it's a trend. Let it settle down and all things will be normal again, with porn at the top.
Also porn is not the only term used to search for porn meanwhile pokemon go is.... well, only used for pokemon go, so it doesn't represent a 100% of the search results.
>>80931044
people that play pokemon are degenerates anyway, who cares about them?
>>80942322
still funny
>>80937739
I don't think the CIA is worried about losing money for a few flights...
That tin foil is frying your brain..
>>80935169
If you have win10 it is already too late for you
Check these trips before you guys argue about dumb bullshit.
>>80942835
Putting agents anywhere is a huge risk and costs a lot of money, plus it's obvious as fuck when feds of any type are mucking about with your shit.
If you were a Russian spy in the US and you were unaware of Pokemon Go or any other app of it's type being a simple spy platform, would you honestly be concerned about 5-10 school aged kids running around playing it near your hideout?
I'd honestly say: Maybe. You might be concerned about the fact that anyone is near your hideout, but after having some consideration you'd probably drop it to avoid potentially outing yourself.
That's the idea. A few mid 20s to middle aged men attempting to be sneaky and keeping an eye on a hideout is suspicious as fuck, but a few 14 year olds running around playing a phone game isn't suspicious at all.
One last thing: Before you say "But the camera can't be used unless AR is on", I'll address that point. The camera on a phone is directly handled by a mix of firmware, hardware, and software. The firmware is most likely made by the manufacturer (let's face it, what type of 13 year old is going to play pokemon go with a rooted phone that isn't running the original firmware?) and can have backdoors, the hardware can have backdoors put into it by DoD allied companies (Because GCHQ surely has nothing to do with ARM Holdings and Intel surely doesn't do anything with the CIA), and the software is proprietary on both apple and android phones and can be tweaked.
If they really really wanted to (which let's be honest, they probably would. surveillance done by children within 30 minutes any place in the world? come on.) they could activate the phone and take a photo whenever the device is in a certain area facing a certain heading.
Normally phones wouldn't be used in this way due to storage constraints, but when you get the ability to narrow down the range of devices you have to capture and areas you have to keep an eye on, this suddenly becomes very feasible and useful.
>>80942423
Hahahahaha yes, I know, sorry, it's funny indeed. I get carried by seriousness too often.
>>80943317
That would be a pretty shitty spy who doesn't get suspicious when a bunch of teenagers with smartphones start hanging out near his hideout.
>>80944568
Of course he'd get suspicious, but he's not going to do shit.
If the kids were spies, the moment he tried anything he'd get a full blown CIA raid team 14.5 inches up his ass, and if they weren't he's just injured and/or killed a bunch of innocent children playing a video game.
>>80935957
I did read that someone on /v/ used bluestacks and spoofed their GPS for PC playing, but I couldn't tell you how
>>80939550
But how fresh are those photos? With op theory, you can get instant fresh photos of anyplace in few minutes.
Im not saying its real, but possible? Hell yeah, they pulled much more weird shit before
>>80936815
fake and gay (now)
This thread should be archived.
>>80938648
It doesn't turn it off if they don't want it to turn it off.
>>80945179
I use bluestacks for steam authentication, it's bloated and constantly trying to download shit to your computer but besides that I'm pretty sure you need gyro support for the app to work which I don't think bluestacks supports
>>80942835
scalability is the concept here.
they have the computing power to handle all the data, they just need a force on the ground, in the right place, pointing a camera at the right angle, and one that has plausible deniability.
What's more plausibly deniable than someone who doesn't even know they're being used?
