Qanon "codes" are consistent with an English-speaker mashing a QWERTY keyboard

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/14/wasd-wasd-wasd.html

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You have to wonder about the people who buy into this.

Why would they use a secret code, publicly on Twitter? Who is the alleged audience if not the public?

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a;sldkfj;alskdfj;laksjdf;lkajsdf;lkjasd;lfkja;slkdjf;lkajsdf;lkjasd;lfkj;laksjdf

…I’ve said too much already.

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For awhile I was putting out “Codes” under qanon hashtags on an alt twitter account over a vpn. They were all randomly generated from https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm and then base64 crypted.

My intention was hoping people involved would waste compute time trying to brute force them.

I did this for a time early on and realized I wasn’t doing the world any good and stopped.

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Any conspirators worth their salt use a dvorak keyboard.

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How about a Russian key-mashing an English keyboard?

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That’s so lazy. Makes perfect sense.

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Is akin to my writing process: typing_blood_animated

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colbert-calculator

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I always assumed they were just from the infinite chunks of text cut off just before 'ACT 1, Scene 1 Elsinore. A platform before the castle…

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The codes are used for the *chan posts. Since those boards are completely anonymized these codes supposedly are to identify the poster as the “real” Q.

Well, right. And they do that how? lol

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That’s where the sense stops.

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but isn’t this the point of QWERTY? that all the most used keys are near the home keys? So really, isn’t all of Twitter/4chan just humans mashing near the home keys? Aren’t we [sic] (they) All Qanon?

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Oh, it stopped long before that.

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they are consistent with an English-speaking QWERTY user putting their fingers on the home row of their keyboard and buttonmashing them

Hmmm… that’s roughly how I make my one-time pads.

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“Let’s not lose our cool, then we’re no better than the machine!”

– Derek Zoolander

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Because only Q has the cryptographic method: right, left, right, left…

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