This right here is Walmart's "Area 71" datacenter. That's right, it's a literal and absolutely fucking massive botnet. If you've ever set foot in a Walmart, you've been botnetted. If you've ever protested against Walmart, you've been botnetted. If you've reported on suc protests, you've been botnetted. If you were for some reason dumb and connected to their wifi, all of your personal emails are now theirs and the botnet's. If for some reason you're working there, you're actively being spied on by the botnet. People are quick to scream "BOTNET" with the traditional companies (Google, MS, Yahoo, et al), but many don't realize that Walmart is also a massive botnet. Arguably, a far more scarier botnet that's actually real and literal. >All of the data are precious to Wal-Mart.
Samuel Bailey
>he doesn't know
Lincoln Clark
This is why I only deal with trustworthy organizations like Amazon
Christopher Bailey
kek
Logan Allen
And tho think they were doing this all they back in 2004. It's good I don't buy from Amazon like him.
Lucas Robinson
>red_1337_star762 !eMRS5YxXBA
Julian Lewis
Kek typical fucking walmart just copy and paste a fucking supercenter blueprint for their datacenter even the fucking parking lot
Carter Foster
Hello wallmart/amazon botnet.
Aiden Robinson
>When you first walk in theres a screen overhead showing you on camera >always unsettled me when I saw it >tfw its actually been botnetting me the whole time another fucking reason to never leave my house
Andrew Torres
It's legal because they're showing you the recording.
Justin Hernandez
But if you return the favor, they yell at you. Do you not see something wrong with this?
Chase Thompson
What if im blind
Bentley Williams
Too bad, you consented anyway.
Anthony James
>live in america >land of the 'free' >get spied on
Alexander Diaz
dude, its just so they know if you like Cheeto's or whatever
Jace Sanders
Not reading the brail disclaimer would be considered negligent in court
Christopher Cooper
I once went into a wal mart and bricked their router and wiped all the OS's off their laptops
does that make me botnetted?
Luis Allen
Prove it or fuck off.
Ryan Hughes
all of their router passwords are walmart + store number for the electronics department
all of their laptops allow bios settings & boot config changed
wasn't hard
Gavin Bennett
>all of their laptops allow bios settings & boot config changed How the fuck could you even access them though??
Caleb Flores
Through the botnet
Ian Russell
Should've known, the Intlel management engine.
Angel Wood
turn off laptop press delete..
Brayden Adams
>live across the street in middleoffucknowhere frmo that datacentre >enjoy the fastest internet speeds because of said botnet you're just jelly walmart didn't open up a datacentre near you.
unless you're one of those city folk, in which case, kys yourself.
Landon Watson
>tfw your peanut butter is botnetted
Brayden Cooper
>all of their router passwords are walmart + store number for the electronics department is that really fucking true?
Bentley Scott
You're on a list now
Gavin Lopez
I've managed to get far enough that management with earpieces greeted me after I passed the clothing section almost to electronics, but I'm partly schizophrenic and it takes a lot of unnecessary effort to get to the point of hiding in plain sight like that. Or at least the effort becomes exponential in decision making and prediction evasion when in plain sight. I can basically wipe my working memory clean and experience any drug at any time. But I like to decide in the moment on everything so they try to sell shit and I rather not let it influence my decision.
Oliver Rodriguez
by botnet you mean they store and analyze a bunch of your data to be more profitable.
nobody cares that you buy zebra cakes everyday
Asher Watson
that is for security purposes. unless you're stealing shit, there's no way walmart would ever attempt to connect that video feed of you to your purchase history.
Xavier Roberts
>nobody cares that you buy zebra cakes everyday Not right now. In a decade, that will be a flag for poor decision making, bad upbringing, possible genetic inferiority, low IQ, poor impulse control, etc.
Hudson Peterson
Well its still fun to attempt to make the botnets work harder by purposely altering decisions and being unpredictable to the point that it possibly influences other customers in their route, but yeah I want some zebra cakes now.
Joshua Thompson
>if you use electronics you got botnetted >if you step outside you got botnetted >if you live you got botnetted >botnet botnet botnet botnet BOTNET
this is how retarded (You) are. walmart is one of the largest companies in the world and has the largest logistics chain, yeah no shit they need a datacenter to run their shit smoothly. amazon has datacenters all over the world and they're only a fraction of the size
Ayden Garcia
Did you even fucking read any of that? Its not just a datacenter, its a whole facility for storing and analyzing all data that they can collect like purchase patterns and security camera footage of how people buy shit
Landon Peterson
There is no list it is all in my head, then i make random decisions based on events that happen in my life and alter them further with what happens on any specific day, and have no plan for when to buy food on a routine, it happens either when I run out of food or when I think I want something that I didn't buy last time, the items actually are consistent, but the pathway that I take to get to them and the order changes every time, sometimes I'll stand in one spot attempting to remember or think about something that I actually might want but then go off on another wild goose chase to get to the next item. Then there is usually an impulse buy that is not in the main display of things to be bought impulsively.
Aiden Wood
what the fuck else would a datacenter be used for. micro-analytics is already reality, deal with it
Julian Barnes
They analyze to the point of figuring out if it is profitable to continue analysis, and it usually always is.
Nicholas Miller
uh-oh, so you mean to tell me that they will put the peanut butter in aisle four instead of aisle three now because they did an analysis on millions of purchase histories? I'm SCARED.
Logan Green
Good goy
Adrian Turner
what if the thing analysing whether or not it's profitable to analyse is lying about its own profitability in an attempt to ensure its kept alive, and growing. woah man aliens or something.
Andrew Campbell
>If you were for some reason dumb and connected to their wifi, all of your personal emails are now theirs and the botnet's uh, what?
Landon Cooper
I'm wondering if you don't steal anything but somehow prevent other customers from reaching their predetermined profit margins if they will attempt to do something about it?
Parker Rogers
you cant get spied on on private property you fucking tard. UK has much worse in their public streets.
Luke Cook
yea used to be true for like 10 years, not sure if it still is but probably
Brandon Cox
>you cant get spied on on private property is this retard serious? cause i find it seriously funny.
Jack Powell
pretty tiny lil faggy DC DESU SENPAI
Colton Myers
This isn't news, though the date stamps on your links tells us that.
If you use a credit card, they're using that to track your purchasing habits (not just the cc company, the retailer too).
If you have a device that is using wifi or bluetooth, they are using that to track how you move through the store.
These things have been public for ages, and it surprises me how many people don't know about it.
If you have a problem with these things, pay with cash and don't carry your phone into the shop. Fucking easy. Until computer vision is good enough to track people and the products they buy, anyway.
Personally, I have no problem. If coles want to track how often I buy fancy cheese and toilet paper, good on them.
Jeremiah Taylor
additionally: perhaps they can use the foot traffic data to make shops less of a fucking pain in the arse to navigate.
I'm not the average shopper though, I don't buy things just because they put the milk & bread I came for at the back of the shop. I just want to get there, get my stuff, and get out quickly as possible.
Daniel Allen
>perhaps they can use the foot traffic data to make shops less of a fucking pain in the arse to navigate. They won't.
Gabriel Ortiz
You are just insane. You can't do the things you think you can and there is no one doing the things you think they do. We are not watching you. You are insane and should calm down. Have you visited a psychiatrist? I am sure that would help you.
Carter Martinez
Look at 5 things, listen to 4 things, touch 3 things, smell 2 things, taste 1 thing. Then look around your room finding items of a certain color. Ground yourself. Take your meds or go to a doctor to get them review.
Fellow schitzoanon
Robert Nelson
Stop giving him (you)s and just filter
Juan Long
Do they also track who sharts in their mart?
Charles Harris
Yep "People of Walmart"
ANOTHER BOTNET PEOPLE
Mason Jones
A, "literal," botnet would be compromised computers attacking other computers.
Cameron Evans
I don't give a fuck if the botnet sees me taking a shit on the floor. I fucking do this at all the local walmarts ever fucking week on the same day in thie bathrooms.
They seem to care more about a stolen pepsi than some nutjob like me shiting on tier floors for the past 3 years.
Henry Rogers
If their botnet is really so expansice, then why is Walmart THE go-to for shoplifting hoodlums, mart-sharters, and other things that nobody would get away with if their every move was being monitored.
OP and Walmart are fucking jokes, you seriously need help if you think a store notorious for poop in their aisles is fingerprinting you
Xavier Turner
Computers can't tell black people apart. I work with a very black guy from Africa, his windows surface pro thing won't recognize him if the light's not right.
Gabriel Diaz
You probably can't legally put cameras in bathrooms in your state.
Jack Barnes
It's easy as fuck to eat shit from Walmart. Literally walk around and eat any candies or sodas that you got from the cash register area.
Nicholas Richardson
This is big government, why isn't this illegal?
Brandon Lee
>he didn't link to an archived version of nytimes breh...
Hudson Cruz
Wiki says it has the storage capacity of 460 TB.
So that's like 1-2 server rack (server racks can hold 50-100 HDD each) with 50-100 2-5TB HDD.
Seems like wiki info is fake. my own calculation is it uses somewhere around 50 petabytes of data per year. Thats around 16,666 3TB HDD. Or around 333 server racks. This would make more sense given the size of it.