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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: 3, Interesting) by omoc on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:26AM
actually this could get very nasty for them if there is only one hint at a foreign company that was discredited in favor of a US based company. We should not forget their spying is not about terrorism but about industrial espionage and I would not be surprised if they have a more aggressive approach to destroy overseas competition.
(Score: 1) by jalopezp on Wednesday February 26 2014, @10:31AM
Foreign... Like the UK? For whom GCHQ works? I guess it might be even worse for them if it turns out that at some point they discredited a US based company.