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

 

[Stevewu609]

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

I like it in some stories and very much dislike it in others. I like stories where a female protagonist pushes through boundaries and goes further than she normally would but in a believable way. And some times, blackmail (of various types) can be a useful plot device to help explain why she does somethings. But if the whole story is just her being made to do stuff she doesn't want to do or enjoy by someone who gets off on that control or something, then that's not a turn on.

I like the ones where it's a woman discovering an inner exhibitionist or inner slut or what have you that maybe she didn't know was there or did kind of know but was always too shy or scared to explore it. And usually there has to be some kind of external pressure to get things started (and sometimes to push through boundaries/but at that point the "external" pressure could be more in her head). It could be a lost bet and peer pressure to not welsh on the bet that gets her past her first point of reluctance. It could be a vacation in a foreign country and a sense of reduced risk and maybe some lowered inhibitions. It could be a game that starts small and through escalation of commitment, she finds herself rationalizing things that she'd have been terrified to do not too long ago.

But even in many of these, there could be elements of blackmail. Peer pressure can be a form of emotional blackmail. Or if pictures or videos are taken of her for the first thing that are out of her control (eg, on friends' phones), there could be an unstated sense of blackmail in her mind. She might feel more pressure not to do something that might risk making one of them leak those pictures videos and give into more peer pressure to take on a bet with a worse payoff. Her friends might have no intention of ever leaking them and think their friend is kind of into exhibitionism but is overly shy and they're helping her out by nudging her to do it and help give her the built in excuse of a lost bet so she doesn't have to embarrassingly admit she's doing it for no other reason than she wants to. And maybe they're partly right about that, but she is still being motivated in part by a fear that they could humiliate her with those pictures or videos if she backs out.

Or in the game example, I think of stories with the truth or dare type apps. One I liked that fizzled out and never got completed was "Turnons - A Game of Dares." The main character voluntarily joined the game and voluntarily took risks. The app was the external force that pushed her to go through with some exhibitionist challenges and to be successful in the game and avoid punishments. There was definitely escalating commitment and times where she had to choose between two scary choices and often picked the one that gave her short term relief but would put her in a tougher spot later in the game. But there were definitely elements of blackmail in the app. She couldn't quit the game without basically allowing it to make public all of the pictures and videos and messages from the game (including increasingly risque nudes and masturbation videos, tho, none that showed her face). If she started to hate the game and was miserable and trapped, then it would cease to be erotic to me. But that wasn't the case. She did enjoy the game. It's just that she had to keep pushing through new boundaries, which was scary, but which she ultimately did enjoy (in the fictional story). But having the fact that she couldn't really just quit and turn the phone off and delete the app without these bad consequences helped make the story feel more real and believable psychologically (obviously there things that required some suspension of disbelief, like an app like this being legal and popular and having the technological abilities it does).

I like the stories where there's a little bit of that psychological wrestling going on. I don't want a story where she just shamelessly does all of the things without issue no matter how extreme. And I don't want one where she's forced to do things she hates and the whole things is awful and traumatic for her and not sexy at all. I want the in between, where she has urges and wants but also reluctance and fear, and she grapples with them both. And sometimes reluctance is lower and she surprises herself with what she does. But other times the fear and reluctance are higher and she has to be pushed to make a choice: to push through the fear and complete the challenge and all that comes with that or to chicken out and take the punishment instead.

Anyway, I know this is kind of unrelated to OP's actual story idea. I just wanted to share a bit of my nuanced view on blackmail in erotic stories, because, like you, I don't find it erotic at all in many cases and can even be a real turn off. But perhaps counter intuitively, I find it can actually be an important element in some of the stories I enjoy most. And yes, the examples I gave were more like types of blackmail that are different from the straight up extortion of a person subject to the blackmail by the person who holds it. But I can even enjoy those types of stories if done right. Like I said... nuanced. Lol.

 

[hatshoe]

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

Indeed! Imagine suggesting a fictional story including illegal acts. If that were allowed there might even be a huge genre of literature known as crime fiction.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

Indeed! Imagine suggesting a fictional story including illegal acts. If that were allowed there might even be a huge genre of literature known as crime fiction.

<Checks incest category>

Lit might be in trouble if we can't write about crime....