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The Amazing Arachne (Spider-Liv Sequel!)

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[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
-[X] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

Yeah, Justine probably has about a week before she gets arrested for stealing explosives, or worse. But Arachne is a superhero, and instead of abandoning her to the law, she should try to arrange an alibi or a safehouse and the like. She'll definitely need Justine's trust to do that, and it's a big commitment and hence a major source of stress, but it's the right thing to do.
 
"Oh look at me, I'm Google Assistant, I've learned to anticipate the needs of my client across multiple platforms. Bitch." Athena muttered in your ear. "
That was hilarious. Thank you.
[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
-[X] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.
 
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[x] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
-[x] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

Unmasking at the first date seems unwise. We don't even know if 'attempted bombing of corporate property' is the worst she's done.
 
[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
 
[x] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
-[x] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.
 
[x] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
- [x] Stay six feet apart, it's not worth the risk.
 
[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
-[X] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.
 
[x] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
-[x] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

Fuuuuuuck that. We're pretty close to made anyway, unmasking in this car is as good as unmasking all the time.
 
[x] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
-[x] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveilance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

in the words of MCU!Ultron, Justine is unbearably naive. Hopefully Liv can metaphorically knock some sense into her, and try to wipe Justine's travel history from the smartcar and Google interface, but good lord, how is someone of this age bracket this dense about security around technology?
 
[--] Keep your mask on, it's not worth the risk
-[--] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

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[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
-[X] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.

Marlowe310811 said:
Hopefully Liv can metaphorically knock some sense into her, and try to wipe Justine's travel history from the smartcar and Google interface, but good lord, how is someone of this age bracket this dense about security around technology?
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I would say that is exactly her age that makes her not realize the constant surveillance, this is normal for her, it's how things "are".

In general when you're a teen, how many times do you ever stop to consider how marketing or publicity works? Stop to check if there are cameras nearby? People that are hyper aware of those kind of things aren't that common.
 
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Astaroh-M said:
[X] Pull your mask off. This was about as safe as it got, you had mutual blackmail material, and you could use a friend in the loop.
-[X] Give Justine the 'Infosec, Ubiquitous Surveillance, And You' talk, and tell her she should probably torch her car.


I would say that is exactly her age that makes her not realize the constant surveillance, this is normal for her, it's how things "are".

In general when you're a teen, how many times do you ever stop to consider how marketing or publicity works? Stop to check if there are cameras nearby? People that are hyper aware of those kind of things aren't that common.
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This is the thing. Justine was born in 2010 and has grown up with this stuff. It is not weird for her. She has come to trust it the same way we trust getting into cars even though it's a dumb dangerous thing to do.

Atop that, Justine is like... she's a very trusting person generally? Her parents are well off even after her dad went to jail, the atmosphere of her upbringing was very optimistic, and though she knows there are big problems in the world she thinks the thing to do about it is to roll up your sleeves and blow up some robots. It's part her fancy schools and nice house upbringing, but also just youth; Liv tells herself was disillusioned with the world by the time she was twelve, but she also tried to arrest the Red Skull.

This is also a little outside her field. Liv is constantly and uncomfortably aware she is being tracked because of her tech sense, and because information technology is her field, with robotics, chemistry, etc a distant second. Justine builds stuff, that's her passion. She's good with computers strictly in that she's on the school's robotics team and she knows how to use code to control machines, but she's never thought too hard about the Google Assistant that's been on her phone for more than half her life. A very clever and accomplished DIY type, but she has stuff like friends and outdoor hobbies and other fringe and unhealthy habits rather than being terminally online like Liv.

She is modelled, a little, after the young people, first year college types and late teens, who turn up to protests expecting to throw down with the cops despite neither having thought that through nor checked if that'd be helpful.
 
Even though I'm voting for it, torching the car is metaphorical right? We need to sanitize and fool the systems, actually ditching the car would only add suspicion at this point.

Really, if we intend to befriend Justine, Liv and Athena should probably put together a security package to try and teach her to cover her tracks.

Maybe we try to customize her google assistant.
 
10ebbor10 said:
That doesn't quite work. It's a very big "something is going on here" warning, that might trigger any kind of heuristic anti-terrorism screening software.


What kind of prison is he in, anyway? White color open prison, or High sec?
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White collar type now, after more than a decade of lawyering. They were on track to getting him out but then a bunch of wars happened and it was really hard to get sympathy for somebody that the media was calling a traitor.
 
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