On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:07:06 -0700 Rayzer <Rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
juan wrote:
One could argue there's a bit of collateral damage among the oligarchy. The piece of propaganda that rysiek kindly linked has a list of evildoers which includes putin...and an asshole argentine football player. One would wonder why they are 'making an example' out of this particular guy. I guess he's not on obomba's team.
David Cameron's father is in there too.
Hm. That one may be a bit harder to explain. 'Plausible deniability' maybe? As in "See? We are not (completely) biased". Also, the best propaganda has a % of truth mixed in.
I've noticed that these sorts of mass unsorted dox dumps often have some sort of obfuscation angle to them. Just about the time the congressional Benghazi hearings began someone dumped every damn dox regarding Libya on the media for publishing. The truth gets lost in the clutter
Yes, I was thinking about that too. How much damaging information could, say, a 100 kb text file contain? My guess is a lot. On the other hand, having terabytes of raw data that need to be somehow analyzed isn't as effective. But, truth be told, having access to the raw data is a good thing (assuming it hasn't been tampered with...)
and ordinary folks who would be interested eyes glaze over. They end up reinforced in believing what they already 'knew'.