Official Botnet Score Version 1.1

Official botnet score version 1.1 Botnet +10 use a cell phone +15 use the internet +10 use an x86 (Intel/AMD) computer made after 2009 +5 drive car w/cellular location beacon & remote control (most new cars) +5 let an insurance company spy on your car e.g. Drivewise, Snapshot +5 use Google Chrome +15 use Google Search +10 use Google Gmail +5 use Android phone +15 use Facebook or Facebook Instagram +5 use Facebook WhatsApp +10 use Windows 10 +5 use Microsoft LinkedIn or Microsoft Github +5 use a modern gaming console +5 for every streaming service subscribed to e.g. Netflix, Spotify +5 for every object in your house needlessly connected to internet, e.g. lightbulb, water, thermostat, lock, fridge +15 bugged your own house with a "smart speaker", e.g. Alexa, Google Home +5 videotaping the outside of your house and streaming it to the internet & police, e.g. Amazon Ring +15 videotaping the "inside" of your house and streaming it to internet, e.g. Google Nest cam. Good grief. +5 use card when you could pay cash +5 buy things from Amazon +5 regularly buy anything else online with card +5 use e-reader connected to internet +5 store anything on muh cloud e.g. Dropbox, iCloud +5 use ISP router +5 sent your DNA to a company to be harvested +5 use a fitness tracker connected to internet Counterbotnet -2 use no-log VPN paid for anonymously and/or Tor at all times -2 use adblocker -2 use pseudonymous emails and disposable identities whenever possible -2 use Linux or BSD 0: How are you even reading this? <15: Amish mode You live mostly free of the botnet, but are also mostly outside society. Without a strong local community, doomed to a life of loneliness. 15-50: Disturbed backerman You live in society but actively avoid the botnet. Lack of social media causes social rejection. Evasion may attract extra attention by government spies. Paranoia affects your mental health. 50-150: Normie zone You've given in to the botnet. Trillion dollar corporations cyberstalk your whole life and archive your every move into their databases. Likely to be gulaged in 2030 for browsing history in 2019. >150: Cattle Complete absorption by the botnet. Because there is little thought or action unprompted by the ads constantly beamed into your brain, will probably not be gulaged. You encourage others to join the botnet.

A dark-background infographic assigns points for everyday technology use and subtracts points for privacy-conscious habits. The joke is that ordinary internet users are scored as increasingly absorbed by a sinister “botnet,” while extreme privacy users become isolated “Amish” outsiders. It is shared as a cynical reaction to surveillance, social media, smart devices, and corporate data collection.

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