-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/2015 09:42 PM, Razer wrote:
On 10/18/2015 04:07 PM, Alfie John wrote:
the noise may be deliberate:
Just watch the Israel trolls. Most are morons, but they sure make some 'noise'.
From the article:
GCHQ describes the purpose of JTRIG in starkly clear terms: “using online techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world,” including “information ops (influence or disruption).”
+1
Influence: Search Engines so googlers see THEIR info first.
Disruption: Make the forums they infest less desirable with disinformation, sometimes quite obvious, repeated over and over and over again intended to (see 'influence' first and...) generally annoy users who disagree with them using ad hom filled rants, often tail-ending comment threads so their info is first/last seen.
Something I have seen a lot of is professional promotion of obviously bogus "conspiracy theories" in forums where some of the more embarrassing excesses of our Deep State and Security Service get up to are openly and accurately discussed. Maybe it's just advertising targeting a demographic; there's always a click-bait website at the source. Or maybe it's stink-marking to repel fence sitting Liberals who might be edging toward radicalization, or at least help them remember that subjects they have been taught to lie to themselves about are "things those ignorant idiots believe." Either way, same result: The networks are a battlefield and those who don't come prepared leave disinformed if not brainwashed. Twas ever thus; what do you say to a person who asks you for a "trustworthy and accurate news source"? I tell them there ain't no such thing, and shove a copy of this in their general direction in hope that it might occasionally do some good: http://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/Psychology-of-Intelligence- Analysis.pdf Hope springs eternal... :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWKDw4AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0Lk0kP/jofMn0KVkh1HiCIS0w4WfL9 8cbO9UAba3UZi48tjHNWeqbdRdRl1aRd1OIQxnUN7KAPhRFkv2WEoZC9n/k8pytp oTp3iK/TcDTjWJqnLEJNi3WKRwuNuQHIoKAvVN2dr3qu15fH/UKm+CbqZgz6qNH2 49del4XQDA6RAK39mz/D3SjRbiX2rkeDdXj5LPmnMaSBEMIKZgVyn3sBF3bXFA5i HKacGsfcP3PVYkUX5eywdXHS1kxn1YfV4TLat+dZheY+CjXSH4BC1MiTGzRJ6yGe G7ahO3T9fDHH70xHmf5pA/cVJuiv46N6Zoyuotq+T0XUrlNbdOpk78Y7mA39xGM5 BZ6qt2k9mfCQhnoNMLlKolLVwOf32k0/KTw7G0JCAzkCIHuyid1tB4woiEtu/2Lj HvPpaUQJyQtK+9HYiZhqouVnGJliHwyx3IYrMyn6O2emEnLCXV6w4tmaBaPRbIlZ dD1EFNt1jFHhK7jDNawb7XuYClOLgxT9t4Or+MTRWtKCVa8Oc13MpscfXpEfDvNx jwpGs6bYspgcdWdqW8Ox4DW469XlPPWQd7UfOV/bcD/jTGloj7V0uR5Ff0O5ejPI ReCGt+ReAilueDaawEEOeGiAS4W1zWAo4GlWLsrfOPHglrPDcky77XoUqoUdotAR Qw+JZX0uguUYsJCSqOTw =FtVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----