State of the art in malware owning human?

Travis Biehn tbiehn at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 06:59:38 PDT 2015


"...or DoS the human, making them inoperable." - Panopticon, have you heard
of it?

You can usually trigger some basic feelings with these techniques.

Complex influence requires complex mechanisms.

PSYOPS and the like.

Couldn't resist.

-Travis

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:

> "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
> and
> "We are all God's children"
> and
> "Mohamed is his prophet"
>
> Worst malware ever. Makes people violent and unable to comprehend reality.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com>
> wrote:
> > What is the state of the art in malware owning the human, not just the
> > box?
> >
> > ...or DoS the human, making them inoperable.
> >
> > Maybe it is something like 25th frame, possibly with auditory vector.
> >
> > Or better remote hypnosis.
> >
> > IIRC on some forum about epilepsy someone posted ``weird image'' which
> > causes severe crisis in some epileptics of certain form.
> >
> > Some info about 25th frame:
> >
> http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/98spring/thomas.htm
> > ---
> > According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a
> > person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th
> > frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors
> > that allegedly put computer operators into a trance. The subconscious
> > perception of the new pattern eventually results in arrhythmia of the
> > heart. Other Russian computer specialists, not just Solntsev, talk
> > openly about this "25th frame effect" and its ability to subtly manage a
> > computer user's perceptions. The purpose of this technique is to inject
> > a thought into the viewer's subconscious. It may remind some of the
> > subliminal advertising controversy in the United States in the late
> > 1950s.
> > ---
> >
> > F-secure claims:
> > Russian Virus 666
> > There is no virus by this name.
> >
> > IIRC spammers used it for spam in animated images
> >
> > http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/
> > Japanese cartoon triggers seizures in hundreds of children
> >
>



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