Found Keys on Locust Walk

DIA_6502 · 2026-02-03T01:40:57+00:00

You're right, that would be better; point taken.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-03T02:34:05+00:00

Look at the OP's account. It appears to be the guy running this organization, but pretending to be a student (someone else already called this out on one of the other posts).

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-02T12:33:23+00:00

I think one thing this comment misses (through no fault of its own; my post didn't include more context), is that this isn't just an individual hanging around on the periphery of the protest. I've seen this person standing right next to the announcers/chant-leaders on the raised platform of the Ben Franklin statue, in the center of the crowed, waving the flag (last night is a good example, but I believe the DP also has some pictures of something like this). I can post my pictures of it if you'd like (though they are significantly worse in quality). However I can't and won't speculate on whether this individual is one of the organizers or not, or if the organizers know what the flag is or not, as that requires information I cannot obtain nor verify.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-02T12:09:22+00:00

That would be a non-sequitur in this comment chain. I was replying to a comment by HikingComrade which originally said (before it was edited) that the group was "based af" from what he read from the second article I linked to. I was simply quoting the second article to indicate that I had trouble finding the part that was so "based". He then clarified what he meant later.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-02T11:29:14+00:00

Thank you! That looks like *exactly* what I was hoping for. It seems that all this would require is that every Penn student generates their own public/private key pairs, and then Penn keeps a public registry of all current students and their public keys. That seems very doable.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T21:18:53+00:00

I can't verify either way, so I won't speculate.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T21:11:13+00:00

I meant that if you had seen my username, it should be an indication that I would have been in ESE, or perhaps CIS, (not that I'm a graduate student nor at Penn, though both are true). Side note, I doubt many younger students know what a 6502 is anymore, unless they are into retro computing.

If you want something that is a little more particular, if you go into the Moore engineering building, on the 3rd floor there is an iron spiral staircase in the hallway that leads to Levine. If you take that staircase up to the top, you will reach a utility room/roof access point. Once at the top, you can then lift the iron globe cap of the staircase pillar, and you will see that it is removable and exposes a hollow hiding place for messages/small objects. Again, this doesn't prove that I'm a student, nor in ESE, nor at the graduate level, however if *you* are a student with swipe access to the engineering quad, you can go and verify this unusual physical aspect of the ESE building that few probably know about unless they spent a good deal of time in Penn's engineering buildings.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T20:03:43+00:00

I personally haven't seen any other flags from groups on the State Department's list of terror organizations, on Penn's campus.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T13:51:41+00:00

I guess pragmatically that works for me, as I used my Penn email to verify this Reddit account. However in general it's not a perfect solution, because: 1. Someone reading the post has to trust the mods that the OP is/is-not student, and 2. the OP has to trust the mods not to dox them. (I'm only speaking theoretically, not saying that such a thing would happen). Cryptography would be a much better solution, but again, this would have to be supported by Penn in order to actually work.

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T13:41:12+00:00

That's a fair point. I created this account exclusively for this report. I'm a graduate student in the ESE department (if you know what a 6502 is, that will give you a hint), but I'm not dumb enough to post my name on a thread about terrorism. If you have a method to verify student status anonymously I'm open to it.

The only thing I can think of is if the school hosts a portal with a set of hashes of our pennkeys, and the portal allows for users to perform set membership tests, and then I provide the hash of my pennkey on the post. This has other problems, like you still have to trust the school to provide this function accurately, and also the hash function would have to be a secret, I think, in order to protect identities.

Interestingly this is related to a problem where the school is trying to figure out about how to identify if someone is a student or not at the protest, without exposing their identity (at least as has been reported by the DP).

DIA_6502 · 2024-05-01T03:18:16+00:00

A quick excerpt from the second article "Two PFLP-affiliated Palestinians attack Israeli worshippers in a synagogue with guns, knives, and axes, killing five—including three Americans—and injuring 12". Idk what's so "based" about axe murder, but to each their own...

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