4 Darknesses: Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls

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http://www.juancole.com/2014/02/darknesses-manipulated-deceived.html

4 Darknesses: Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls
By Juan Cole | Feb. 25, 2014

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Now it turns out that Western intelligence agencies who say that they are fighting al-Qaeda are actually spending time trolling the internet, displaying all the same Dark Tetrad characteristics. Their victims include “hacktivists,” but note that they are targeting these individuals on suspicion of hacking and that the persons targeted have not been convicted of any crime.

Glenn Greenwald at Firstlook reveals the powerpoint slides used by British intelligence (GCHQ) to train its operatives in how to deceive Western publics. It must also be underlined that we simply don’t know who exactly is targeted in cyberspace in this way or why. Some anti-war activists, e.g., may be among the victims.

The powerpoint slides instruct cyber-spies to entrap their “targets” in sex scandals (the “honey trap”), to write deceptive emails to their friends and colleagues (did anyone you know suddenly stop talking to you and wouldn’t explain why?), to change their photos on social media, and to create a blog in which the individual posed as a purported victim of some alleged dastardly deeds falsely attributed to the target. Where the target is a company, the slides advise “post negative information on appropriate forums,” “ruin business relationships”.

The mantra of these dirty tricks units is the “4 D’s”: deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive.

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1. k and r

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2. "deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive"

And that is why their word is not worth a bucket of warm spit, they are propaganda outfits, and we are the intended propagandized. Agents provocateur, not even hiding it. This is un-american. This is totalitarian. This is un-democratic. This is hypocrisy. And this is over the line.