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How GCHQ Manipulates Online Opinion

posted by Dopefish on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the true-journalism-at-stake dept.

nobbis writes "In an article entitled 'How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations' Glenn Greenwald publishes training material from the Snowden archive that illustrates how GCHQ uses "cyber-offensive techniques against people who have nothing to do with terrorism or national security threats", for example against "Hacktivism".

These techniques include disseminating deception on-line and harming the reputations of their targets with a honey trap , a blog from a purported victim of the target, or 'changing their photos on social media sites'. Similarly companies are discredited by leaking of confidential information, or posting negative information on appropriate forums. The covert agents' play book includes infiltration, false flag, disruption and sting operations.

When questioned GCHQ replied "It is a longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters""

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by RobotMonster on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:08PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:08PM (#6887) Journal

    GCHQ's mom is a crack-whore. She's even on this week's cover of Crack-Whore Magazine.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by everdred on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:19PM

    by everdred (110) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:19PM (#6898) Journal

    Nice try, GCHQ.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by RobotMonster on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:27PM

      by RobotMonster (130) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:27PM (#6904) Journal

      If I were GCHQ I would have written 'mum' instead of 'mom'.
      I'm clearly NSA. Oops. Damnit!

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by RobotMonster on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:30PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:30PM (#6908) Journal

    Flamebait? Who gave GCHQ mod points??!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:48PM (#6929)

      SN is one big honey pot!

      AC, even gchq can't simultaneously moderate and comment, thus is the way of Slashcode

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:38PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:38PM (#6959) Journal

        AC, even gchq can't simultaneously moderate and comment, thus is the way of Slashcode

        There's special code in Slashcode which prevents to open two different accounts if both come from GCHQ members?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:58AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:58AM (#7120) Journal

    GCHQ's mom is a crack-whore. She's even on this week's cover of Crack-Whore Magazine.

    Didn't your parents teach you that's not nice to blame the mother for the shortcomings of her progeny? It's not like one can choose their children.

    (or... was it the other way around!?)

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