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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""
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Khyber on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:41PM
4chan is DEFINITELY targeted, /pol/ mods have caught several Gov't IP addresses posting pro-gov't comments from multiple countries.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by bd on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:58PM
Oh no, not 4chan! One of the last reputable sources for news and education is in peril...
Asides, one could also guess that people with Gov't IP addresses are just more likely to support the actions of their government. I mean, no competent intelligence service would use their own IP address range to launch a coordinated attack, would they? Well... now that I think about it...
(Score: 1) by jalopezp on Wednesday February 26 2014, @10:40AM
I would think that 4chan.org is blocked on any government office's network, as it's blocked at my office. Whoever was posting there with a gov IP address must have at some point got a netowrk admin to unblock 4chan for them. At this point, would an intelligence agency not realise what they were doing was idiotic? Or maybe it was the admins themselves who were posting?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by keplr on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:22PM
It wouldn't surprise me if there were some true believers/trolls working for the government who just like to browse 4chan while at work. If the government really is targeting 4chan for PSYOPS, they're just pissing in the ocean...made of piss.
I don't respond to ACs.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Khyber on Wednesday February 26 2014, @01:39AM
Piss is sterile, at first. Add some government piss into it, it becomes toxic.
Destroying Semiconductors With Style Since 2008, and scaring you ill-educated fools since 2013.
(Score: 1) by similar_name on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:07AM
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:16AM
I'm an American and I fully support all of our government's activities. You may deride me as a "true believer" or a "shill", but that's one of the reasons I only post anonymously on stories like this. It's just too dangerous to post contrarian opinions on this topic on Slashdot or this site non-anonymously, as I've lost too much karma trying to post thought out reasoning for my position and opinion. For whatever reason the moderator group think has become gospel, and anything going against the group think is savagely modded down to -1 troll. The sad part is this opinion is a minority opinion in the USA. I'm sure I'll get marked down troll for this--hence the anonymous post--but again it's just pissing in the ocean that is the widespread popular support for our government's action.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:06AM
Would you care to give us a reason of why your unconditional and full support?
(I'd mod the above +"Interesting" if I wouldn't have already posted).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Insightful) by drgibbon on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:44AM
I don't see too much interesting about it. All the post says is that he/she supports the government and that it's a daring position to take. And then comes "I've lost too much karma trying to post thought out reasoning for my position and opinion [...] hence the anonymous post". Ok, it's being posted anonymously, so where's the thought out reasoning?
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(Score: 1) by Darth Turbogeek on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:46AM
Your country's activities are utterly without defence, that's why you get modded down.
My country is part of Five Eyes, but you sure as fuck wont find me defending that shitstorm. They aint protecting me with that stupidity.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:46AM
[citation seriously needed]
Also, /pol/? /pol/?? the site that believes everything is part of some world-wide zionist conspiracy? /.
If that's the quality of sites SN is relying on, then we might as well all haul ass back to