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  • One thing that annoys me about each statistic about posts is that I don’t know how many of these posts are actually interesting and engaged with.

    For example, there is a specific instance that just mirrors reddit content and has barely any engagement. The bot posts mulitple posts per hour, mostly without any comments or upvotes.

    It seems rather irrelevant to compare these posts to actually interesting posts with a nice discussion and a couple of upvotes.

    My suggestion would be to count and plot the number of posts that have at least a few interactions.












  • If you want “mass surveillance” with thousands of suspects, millions of requests per subject (the paper mentions 20 requests per second IIRC), over weeks … you probably get blocked and/or caught.

    Also, your suspects will be “significantly unhappy” if your espionage costs them 11-18% of their battery per hour. Even without other usage, the battery would be dead by noon.

    And lastly, this attack uses so much bandwidth that video streaming is impacted. I would guess that it probably needs about 1 MBit, which is 11 GB per 24 hours.