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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: 1) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:39PM
I'm not sure how you expect your story to bear out your hypothesis. It just sounds like a person didn't agree with you about a thing. "I told that guy to use Google". I mean, you sure showed them, alright. Your post just makes you sound paranoid that every single discussion you have on the internet is with a federal plant, even when US intelligence is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:17PM
This was at the height of the invasion of Iraq, and there had been several stories about cell phones used for remote detonation of such IEDs in the war zone, as well as a couple small bombings in the EU.
The over the course of several posts back and forth, it was obvious he was trying to bait me into showing him where he could find the information on line on how to do this. It was not credible that he didn't believe it to be possible to do this (since it was happening in the real world).
The whole chain of messages was just hinky. How could someone technical enough to read /. not know this was going on or that it was possible? Yet he was quite insistent that I post links on how to do it.
Seemed silly for me to publish such a link at precisely that time.
(Regardless of what you think of the invasion of Iraq, they were still our guys over there, I knew many who were in the area because I live in a town close to several military bases. If he didn't know how to do this, but wanted to learn, I wasn't about to tell him how. But it seemed like he just wanted to bait me into posting it. Paranoid? Guilty as charged your honor! And hindsight suggests I had reason to be).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by zim on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:21AM
Man... Have i got news for YOU...
Yes. There really are people that stupid. And beyond. So much beyond. It's mindblowing.
And they have access to cars and computers and flammable/explosive items and guns and have JOBS with responsibilites.
And if all that wasn't scary enough. They all get to vote. AND their vote counts as much as yours does.
Sleep tight.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:05PM
Never said anything about proof. I have no idea to this day what exactly was going on.
Its just one example of someone sniffing around a forum that stands out in my mind
as a potential example of the type of activity this article mentions.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.