What is a “Walk”?
A decentralized strategy for networking with local anons anonymously IRL.
Why Walk?
Walking allows normally isolated anons to meet with little risk, make friends, and to organize locally.
How does it work?
Step 1: On the specified date, wear a plain white shirt and any style of hat. Wearing these clothes on this specific day serves to identify you at a glance to other participating anons while also providing absolute plausible deniability if needed.
Step 2: Go to the local place that best corresponds to the OP’s suggestion. Locations might include:
Most popular park
The sidewalk outside Town Hall
Downtown’s fanciest tavern
This improves the odds of anons meeting without naming any specific location, making a honeypot or ambush virtually impossible.
Step 3: If you see another person wearing a white shirt and hat, say hello and drop some hints about /pol/ culture. If they don’t understand, assume they’re not an anon. If they do, congratulations! You probably just met a friendly anon.
That’s it! Feel free to exchange contact information, meet up for coffee later, go find more anons, whatever. It’s up to you how to interact with your newfound compatriots.
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Walk General for April 2019
April has the weather improving a bit, so lets take a stroll down to a park closest to your local City Hall to enjoy it a bit.
Location: The nicest outdoor park or location nearest your City Hall.
Saturdays: April 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th
Dub Days: Thurday April 11th, Monday April 22nd
Times: 1:11pm – 4:44pm
Hints:
Some City Halls have plazas or open areas with seating and park-like qualities as part of their property, so that might count as the closest “park”.
If your region is a little cold, just keep your jacket open to show off your white shirt. Or just wear a white coat.
Try to pick a location where you can see well around you and others might be able to see you rather than hiding in the bushes somewhere.
Bring something to entertain yourself with and walk around a bit while you enjoy the springtime weather.
OP - https://8ch.net/pol/res/13066034.html
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[–] 18007833? ago
In order for the authorities to make examples of wrongthinkers, they need an acceptable context to punish them with. The first method provides all of that, to get anons to participate in a single area where they can concentrate their resources and either instigate or simply wait for illegal and/or immoral action to occur. Once it does it can implicate anyone they want there, and allow them to arrest and dox and punish those people with ease. Everyone got to observe that in action at Charlottesville, and shows very clearly why the idea of marching around without careful regulation and power just puts people at the mercy of malicious actors.
The second is a less effective dragnet, but is the basis of your classic sting or honeypot. If the malicious actor can get an anon to compromise themselves by linking their online activities which can potentially be used against them to their IRL identity, particularly in a place where sufficiently illegal activities are being proposed or encouraged, then they can be tagged, observed, and cross-referenced with ease. This is why as a rule no anon should ever visit a discord or communicate with an email that appears on the board without taking major steps to keep the link between their identity and their online activities separate.
If anons cannot be enticed to the first two methods, then the only course of action left is to prevent any problem activities from happening in the first place by convincing them not to do it. It costs time, effort, and money to build cases against people, and it is simply cheaper to prevent than to punish. Instead of spending millions on an expensive and diluted sting operation whose complexity would dwarf even the normal prostitution and drug stings everyone knows about, they can simply hire a handful of actors to pollute any discussion of an action path they wouldn't be able to effectively deal with. For a bit of minimum wage they can prevent millions of dollars in effort, but only so long as they can convince anons to not do whatever that idea is. Turns out this is the easiest path to take since jumping IP's, using TOR, deploying bots, or even just convincing useful idiots to do it all for free is extremely cheap and hard to detect.
Knowing all this, the reason why a Walk is not useful for a honeypot is because it neither centralizes anons in context-rich environments nor easily links their specific online activities to their specific IRL identities. It is not an activity that a Fed would wish to encourage without specific modifications because it's simply too messy. Instead it would be most effective to just prevent problems in the first place by bombarding the bottleneck with bullshit until anons gave up before they even began and tug on every lever of persuasion (fear, disgust, social proof, etc) to accomplish this end. And that seems to be exactly what is happening in these threads.
The positive side of all this is that because the shill activity is so high, it means the activity is particularly irritating and difficult to deal with to whomever is directing the shills. That should be encouraging in itself. The other side of it is that in a game of attrition which this activity is, the honest anons have the advantage because successes are often not reported and creates a lurking fear in the minds of those trying to stop it. They cannot tell if their efforts are working or not, and will not be able to stop what networking results from these meetings. It is to inflict a terrible paranoia on these people to think that around every park, around every corner, from every person wearing white or a hat, there might be a secret connection being made thousands of times every week that they cannot stop. And that helpless paranoia will manifest itself in these threads in desperate forms.
Enjoy it, and keep Walking.