welp; 5/14

[torching]

[ so uh

it's one day after getting the app, and mako did what he said he would: he took his phone over to an IT guy to get it checked, only to be met with a strange look.

"I don't know what app you're talking about."

needless to say, mako is frustrated as hell. (yoshio and minako may notice him pacing the floor angrily at home.) but he said he'd keep everyone posted, so...here it is. a psa utilizing some of the fancy features the app has to offer. ]

VASSAGO vassago@applenet.net
Shared the following message below:

hey guys.

so...i took my phone to an IT guy as i told some of you yesterday to see if he could remove the app.
he told me he didn't know what i was talking about? to him, my phone looked completely fine.
so i tried to pull up the app but it shut down and disappeared. completely.

yeah. don't ask me how that happened because i have no idea either.

they weren't lying when they said that this app was private.

Comments

[anovelidea]

Let me go leave a note for myself. "When there are more private means of communication, send the Vassago that got completely scammed by tech support some nebulous amount between 500 and 1000 macca."

[ There is a delay between responses: she actually did go to write a note. ]

Ah, no. I meant it jokingly. While I find the mystery intriguing, I'm not stupid enough to go shouting at the skies that Big Brother is out to get me.

[torching]

...i don't even know if you can call that a scam...

well...i don't even know if i should be thanking you for that or not.
that person was quite the character.

[anovelidea]

Going to them is a scam. Surely you have collected some other friend who is decent at electronics?

Conspiracy theories imply our city is, in some way, out to get us. While I do think the police force inept on the best of days, I don't believe they're as

Malignant, let's go with that. We already have proof that, while inept, they don't wish to hurt us. Why make the curfew rule otherwise? In addition, if they really wanted to monitor us, why make the app so prone to raising suspicion? It doesn't make sense.

[torching]

i don't think i do. but there are always the IT majors at school, if anything.

i agree. that's why i told them not to jump to conclusions so easily, but i think they were just rolling with it or something. in any case, i don't think the app is as much as a "threat"
as we may have originally thought.

[anovelidea]

Offer to bring them pizza on their next code binge, they'll do it for a fourth of the cost of the business you just came from.

It may still be a threat, just not from the government. As for our tin foil hat king, it may just be someone stirring up paranoia where they can for the fun of it.