07 · Outreach

Day 27 — Oct 31

Sent the email. The lastwar.tech author gets periodic contact, I’m sure, so I kept it short and concrete: who I am (alliance tech lead, anti-auto side), what I’ve verified independently, and a proposal — we co-build sfs-replay-kit — a deterministic replay & conformance harness for SmartFox-style game protocols. A public harness for replaying captured sessions and testing client implementations against the documented protocol would serve both sides of this fight: defenders could test detection logic without touching the live game, and the RE community would get a cleaner base than one-off scripts. No reply yet. Not expecting one fast; these inboxes die quiet.

Day 28 — Nov 1

Switched to deliverable mode: rules draft v0.1 for the R5 — nine rules, every one built on a documented tool gap, none requiring an officer to judge “vibes.” The emoji/like/sticker asymmetry is rule #1. Reviewed the draft on a call: the moment the leader got the emoji point, the whole thing clicked — “wait, the bot can’t like the message?” Exactly. It can be perfectly present and perfectly unable to perform humanity’s side-channel.

Day 29 — Nov 2

Quiet day. Filled gaps in the feature-to-observable matrix and pressure-tested three draft rules against “how would I evade this if I wrote the tool.” Two survived as-is, one needs rotation built in (fixed patterns get patched by tool vendors once they hear about them — rules have to move). The rules page going up on this wiki is v0.3.