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Bad news conspiracy theorists. QAnon codes are just a guy mashing his keyboard
Graham Cluely ^ | 8-14-2018 | Graham Cluely

Posted on 08/15/2018 6:42:05 PM PDT by pluvmantelo

Researcher Mark Burnett is a world authority on passwords. Think I’m kidding? He has collected millions of passwords over the last couple of decades, and has written a book about the real-life password analyses he has done. It shouldn’t be any surprise then to hear that he’s the kind of guy who’s familiar with the different way people choose passwords - including those who think they can generate a really random password by just mashing their keyboard like a crazy man. Enter the bat-shit crazy QAnon conspiracy theory, which - amongst other things - believes that there is a huge undiscovered paedophile ring run by the powerful liberal elite.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 100000dchess; 4chan; dithf; qanon; qbs; trustthescam; wompwomp; zot
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To: Revel

I’ll tell you something else that makes me chuckle. You see this article that was just posted:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3679590/posts

Q people read it hours ago. Q linked to it. You have no idea how far behind the times “normal” people are. And you have no idea that many of the big articles posted here were either first called out by Q or noticed by people here who find them on Q research and then post them here on FR.

I always get a chuckle from that. Random Keyboard mashing- my foot!


41 posted on 08/15/2018 8:12:21 PM PDT by Revel
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To: sourcery

I’m asking you to explain your statement. What bots? What do you mean by, “confuse the bots?” How exactly do you think these bots work, and why would they be “confused” by a string of random characters?


42 posted on 08/15/2018 8:20:51 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: pluvmantelo

“Bad news conspiracy theorists. QAnon codes are just a guy mashing his keyboard”

...just what the want us to think.


43 posted on 08/15/2018 8:21:12 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: Revel
Q people read it hours ago. Q linked to it. You have no idea how far behind the times “normal” people are.

No offense, but the author of that article, Sara Carter, posted it today at 4:37pm EDT. I'm not a Q person but knew of the article within an hour of the posting.

How much sooner than that did Q link to it? Even before it was posted? If not, then if I as a "normal" person is "far behind the times" after a mere hour, maybe I'm not cut out for the modern era!

44 posted on 08/15/2018 8:21:54 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Eddie01

“I don’t think amongst is a word.”

It is.


45 posted on 08/15/2018 8:23:32 PM PDT by odawg
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To: pluvmantelo

46 posted on 08/15/2018 8:28:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: Jack Black

Well, Ann Coulter once said that Bill Clinton was homosexual (not that i am conflating homosexuality with pedophilia)... but she did make this statement to an incredulous media some years ago.


47 posted on 08/15/2018 8:30:15 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: catnipman
-- have they ever discovered anything that no one else has discovered that has profoundly changed a single significant narrative? --

That's an interesting question, but I don't think it is a good question to apply to the Q phenomenon.

You, for example, have NEVER, not one time in your life, NEVER discovered ONE THING, not a single thing, nor have you expressed a single thought, that no one else has discovered, that profoundly changed a signgle significant narrative.

What does that make you?

Pretty much normal.

48 posted on 08/15/2018 8:30:30 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You are so good at choosing just the right pictures.


49 posted on 08/15/2018 8:32:28 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: highpockets

“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” is what you are saying. Everything you list in favor of the qooks is worthless when weighed against “Trust Sessions!” That’s their rallying cry, and it is DIRECTLY hurting President Trump.

Let me be clear: Anyone saying “Trust Sessions” is against Trump, and as far as I’m concerned, worse than anthem kneelers. Certainly lower. John Brennan territory. Why these turds are allowed to post their disinformation 3x per week on fr is baffling. Traitors to Trump, is what they are.

See tagline.


50 posted on 08/15/2018 8:32:50 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables ("Trust Sessions" is not a plan. It is subversion of Trump by useful idiots. Fire the DOJ 3 stooges!!)
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To: kevao
Sara Carter posted at 4:37 EDT, and this post on the Q thread noted and linked to Sara's article 15 minutes later, which was probably an hour before Q noted Sara's article.

The thread that Q posts to at 8ch.net is noisy, but much more responsive to breaking news than FR is.

Even if Q is garbage, the thread at 8ch.net is useful.

51 posted on 08/15/2018 8:36:18 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: pluvmantelo
Enter the bat-shit crazy QAnon conspiracy theory, which - amongst other things - believes that there is a huge undiscovered paedophile ring run by the powerful liberal elite.

Thinking there's a huge pedo ring run by the powerful liberal elite is *bat-shit crazy*?

Someone is out to cover their behind. Or someone else's.

52 posted on 08/15/2018 8:42:28 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Cboldt

OK, so Q linked 15 minutes after Sara posted, and approximately 45 minutes before I saw it.

Given my handicap — I have a JOB and can’t be web surfing 24/7! — I can’t say I’m all that impressed.

If that makes me a “normal” person who is “far behind the times,” then so be it.

P.S. If Q is really “in the know,” then it would have been far better for him to “cue” Sara Carter to this info many, many months ago....


53 posted on 08/15/2018 8:45:21 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

At least 3 hours before it was posted here. I would have posted it here, but sometimes I just feel like why bother. When I see all the insulting comments on a thread like this then I just don’t feel like it. You all have a right to believe what you want. But the insults are rather personal. Just because you don’t believe in the Q narrative does not give you the right to call everyone who does -Nuts, and Kooks, ect....

Here are many more links from today. Most of these are reminders of past events and stories. Not exactly Koolaid:

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/sunday-nights-matt-doran-goes-undercover-with-operation-underground-railroad-to-bring-down-haiti-child-sex-ring/news-story/dcecf5950ca5b6d501c48ed927127bc3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTqqYCb-e8

https://mobile.twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1029806224412430336

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta-computer-specialist-who-deleted-hillary-clinton-emails-may-have-asked-reddit-for-tips

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers


54 posted on 08/15/2018 8:50:00 PM PDT by Revel
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To: kevao
-- OK, so Q linked 15 minutes after Sara posted, and approximately 45 minutes before I saw it. --

That's not what I said. I linked to it 15 minutes after Sara posted it. You probably saw it before Q posted a link to it. I said Q post came an hour after mine, so later than your view.

-- P.S. If Q is really "in the know," then it would have been far better for him to "cue" Sara Carter to this info many, many months ago... --

Q is posting to the public on 8ch.net, not playing "secret Q" to reporters, at least not that any reporter has disclosed.

55 posted on 08/15/2018 8:52:31 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
That's not what I said.

Sorry I misunderstood.

Q is posting to the public on 8ch.net, not playing "secret Q" to reporters, at least not that any reporter has disclosed.

What I don't get is, Why not? If he knows "the truth," and presumably wants to get it out, then why via cryptic tidbits, and not in an immensely more efficient way?

56 posted on 08/15/2018 8:58:25 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

Because a thread like this wouldn’t have occurred?


57 posted on 08/15/2018 9:02:56 PM PDT by statered ("And you know what I mean.")
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To: Revel
But the insults are rather personal. Just because you don’t believe in the Q narrative does not give you the right to call everyone who does -Nuts, and Kooks, ect....

Where did insult anyone? Where did I call anyone "Nuts, and Kooks, etc"?

Yes, insults are rather personal; but so are false accusations!

58 posted on 08/15/2018 9:03:28 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: statered
Because a thread like this wouldn’t have occurred?

Not following you. If Q gave his info to reporters directly and in the clear, instead of in tidbits cryptically, and then a reporter posted an article on said info, you really think a thread like this would not appear?

59 posted on 08/15/2018 9:06:33 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao
-- If he knows "the truth," and presumably wants to get it out, then why via cryptic tidbits, and not in an immensely more efficient way? --

Others have speculated on this subject, and the positive construction is that a public engaged in finding facts independently of the media, or engaged even if using media reports, has the effect of empowering the public to resist media propaganda.

The speculation goes on to posit that engaging the public in a sort of game facilitates this shift of "information power" from the old bastions, to the public.

If the facts came out without the game, without the personal effort, then the people would not gain any ground in this battle to get/hide the truth.

In short, goes the argument, what you see an an efficient way (give the students the answer, no homework), fails to accomplish the mission of empowering the student.

Is it working like that? I don't know. Will it work? My crystal ball never did work, except it pretty reliably coughs up good guesses that end up wrong.

60 posted on 08/15/2018 9:06:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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