IT blackmail

[MsKatie76]

I'm looking for someone to help write my idea - an IT professional who uses her skills repairing computers to snoop and blackmail families

 

[TheWritingGroup]

What sort of help do you mean? If you mean "Write it for me" that's probably called a "commission". And you'd pay.

Or someone might volunteer, if you gave more information about the idea and it sounded cool.

--Annie

 

[Dwbackup2023]

Is she blackmailing each of them individually and non of the others are aware?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I'm looking for someone to help write my idea - an IT professional who uses her skills repairing computers to snoop and blackmail families

So you want a story about doing 10-20 in prison?

 

[HansDerEhewichser]

I'm looking for someone to help write my idea - an IT professional who uses her skills repairing computers to snoop and blackmail families

Sounds interesting - we could develop it together if you like

 

[000zing]

I'm looking for someone to help write my idea - an IT professional who uses her skills repairing computers to snoop and blackmail families

Looking at your posting history it looks like you've been pushing this idea - and only this idea - for the best part of two years. Why the fixation?

The idea is good as a general proposition. A writer would need more input as to what you have in mind for the MC's modus operandi, what he's like as a character, what he extorts from his victims... just about everything else! The devil is in the detail.

 

[KimAwakened]

I don't see anything wrong with this idea. Blackmail gets a bad press on here - it's as if people don't think it would actually work. I reckon, if the stakes are high enough, that generally it would.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

It isn't even IT professionals. Any device repair is easily vulnerable. People often do not understand how much information is accessible and open to everyone with physical access.

Phone repair is a big one. It is kind boggling how many people leave unencrypted SD cards in there, or even simply give the unlock code instead of opting for the "repair mode". If the products aren't directly on the device it can be trivial enough to access cloud services once the phone is unlocked. Photos and videos of course, but also location data, emails, bank accounts, and so on.

If we focus on the salacious we can have a program that automatically scrapes their identities and makes links. Are they family or married? Much of this is already public in this day and age with social media where everyone offers their personal data to be monetised. We then add the location data, pictures and videos. Been a lot in the evening at your hot secretary house have you? Did your smart watch detect a certain pattern of heart rate every time? Water detection right after? You dirty CEO. Depending on how detailed data the smart devices gather you can follow their adventures to the second.

As for the erotic story, I'm not sure where the erotism comes in for you. Is it a blackmail spiral, where they coerce the not unwilling subject to have sex with them, which results in more blackmail material and perceived higher stakes, so it can happen again? Is it more a "Das leben von anderen," where the IT person is more spying on the dirty deeds, and the blackmail is a reason for the spying? Like watching the heart rate climb during the sex, and then you describe the actual sex in that room? There's options, but I'm wondering where you want to go.

 

[PennyThompson]

I don't find blackmail to be erotic personally, but I did write a "more ethical" digital voyeurism story a few months ago, about a web accessibility specialist who accidentally ends up eavesdropping on a private sexting conversation between two strangers