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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:45PM
Yep. I posted the same thing on Slashdot. If the poster's name starts with 'c' and ends with "fjord" you have a shill post coming.
(Score: 5, Informative) by keplr on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:09PM
The government wouldn't use the same account all the time. They want to build a false consensus around their preferred interpretation of some issue. You need lots of legitimate looking accounts to do that. He was just your typical Neocon useful idiot.
I don't respond to ACs.
(Score: 1) by Geotti on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:33AM
Oh, thank the universe! And there I was thinking this AC-guy I see around these parts could be a shill...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:36AM
He sure posts a lot.
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