Dear NSA: A Collection of Politically Incorrect Short Stories by Cooper Harmon

Author:Cooper, Harmon [Cooper, Harmon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Boycott Books
Published: 2015-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

The Beginning of the War

Broderick Healy went by the name Bruno in high school in Vermont and by the name Brody at MIT, where he created a twenty-first century version of Spacewar in which a small rocket shaped like the Facebook logo fired at random Instagram pictures, producing celebrity tweets as a reward for high scores. The term outsider need not be used to describe him as it is obvious he was an outsider.[18]

Healy developed a small following of hackers with his first blog. Then he created a hybrid blog he called Frogfeet that linked to various social media pages. From there, he expanded Frogfeet to an invite-only website that hosted a stream of user-generated content showcasing trending stories, videos, photos and what was called “ponding”. Ponding allowed users to use the GPS in their electronic devices to see who was “frogging” nearby. Frogfeet wasn’t the first service to do this, but it blew most users away by connecting them with people that had been cross-referenced based on a number of criteria including age, religious beliefs, likes and biases. It was a great hookup app. Naturally, Frogfeet was purchased by Google after having a forty billion dollar bidding war with Facebook and Microsoft.[19]

It should be noted that Healy himself wasn’t very popular on Frogfeet. No one cared if he was frogging nearby. As primitive as it may sound, the people most famous at the time included teen celebrities who posted pictures of their newest tattoos, comedians who excelled in genitalia-based jokes, internet sensations fond of one second videos they called “fasts” and socially charged musicians who commented on things they knew nothing about. Healy, a boring outcast if there ever was one, was easily overshadowed by these competing characters even though he’d created the outlet for them to reach their audiences.[20] He was less Zuckerburg and more Thiel sans the near Randian levels of Libertarianism. Regardless of his invisibility at the height of FrogFeet’s IPO, Healy would soon dominate them all.

His strategic strike against the world started with a Facebook post about how he had been diagnosed with cancer. He chose not to post this message on Frogfeet, as he wanted to prove that he was amiable with Facebook even though his company had been purchased by a competitor. It was a move that would win him some likes; a move that would also garner him some cross-platform followers. It was also the move that started the war.[21]

His “cry for sympathy” was shared by two of his closest friends,[22] 4Chan hackers known only as RedPill and BluePill (more on these two misfits later). This subsequent plea was tweeted and shared. There have been detailed analyses of Healy’s posts, the most notable of which is Jonathan Fistmonk’s, Cancer and the Domination of Healy. There have also been disputes as to the effect of Healy’s fake-cancer posts. I will leave this debate to the experts and continue with an overview of the fiasco.

During high school, Broderick Healy was a Photoshop expert. He’d

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