[jakebasile]

This came up a while ago in the PC community and the consensus I saw was that it's a fake. It uses too much language that is deliberately evil in tone like "bait and switching" etc.

That said, Activision (or maybe EA?) recently received a patent for matchmaking technology that "encourages" you to buy items by first allowing you to be demolished by them, and then if you purchase you're allowed to demolish others so that you feel vindicated.

[fellellor]

I've seen conference proceeding on youtube, mostly about some mobile gaming, that used this kind of language. It's not exactly rare, and such meetings are more targeted to the investor/business owner types rather than devs. Also the videos are rarely posted on any video sharing sites.

There are so many startups right now that focus on real time video analysis to determine activities like intrusion detection. Though these developments are focused towards defense and border security, I feel they can easily be retrofitted/repurposed for data collection as described in the slides.

If the argument that the slides are fake is based on how evil they sound, I just can't buy that.

[im3w1l]

Even if it is fake it may be interesting to suspend disbelief. Whoever made this fake obvioulsy put a lot of time into thinking about this and may have spread it as a cautionary tale to avert a future scenario.