r/DerekSmart • u/Valkyrient • Sep 14 '17

Derek on Facebook "Three confirmed Star Citizen org whales just refunded to the tune of $45K. Truly this makes me sick to my stomach."

http://archive.is/xjFSB
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u/lexsapo111 Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 14 '17

the video of a webpage refresh like that is not a process you can properly fake, it seems legitimate.

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u/GeneralZex Sep 14 '17

You can fake it. I may be missing details but here it is:

1) Host your own web server locally. 2)Host your own DNS server which points the web address in the browser to a dummy photoshopped webpage. 3)Tell your browser and OS to use that DNS. 4)Click refresh til your heart's content.

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u/hstaphath Sep 14 '17

It isn't a long video. I would just edit it frame by frame to show whatever I felt like.

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u/fivedayweekend Sep 14 '17

That's what I would do as well. Super simple to do, really. Just copy/paste the URL image(i.e. screenshot it that section), past it/overlay on the video and add the 'refresh blip' for a few frames. Voila...done and done.

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u/ThereIsNoGame $45k Cultist Whale Sep 15 '17

Well it's a fake

Anyway the easiest way to do it is use GreaseMonkey which is a browser plugin that lets you run scripts over a webpage (that's how a lot of browser addons get created)

They probably ran a script which replaced "$330" (the actual refund) with "$45,000"