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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: 2, Interesting) by Pav on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:01AM
I second this - he's valuable. There most certainly are shades of grey, and he backs up his points well even though I usually disagree. An echo chamber isn't in anyones interest. We're certainly valuable to him, and perhaps more than we realise if eg. if he's somehow involved in politics. Regardless, society benefits from arguments over facts, even disputes over the veracity of facts/figures. These days most of the world spins its emotional wheels over a media landscape not particularly attached to a solid base in reality (which should terrify anyone who believes in democracy), but more should be expected from a nerd site.