On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:13:43AM -0800, coderman wrote: > On 11/9/15, Elias Groll <eliasgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... I've been reporting on warnings issued by DNI Clapper and NSA Director > > Rogers on the threat posed by data manipulation and integrity attacks. > > These statements have been vague in nature and lacking specifics. > > generally, manipulating data is done for any of the following reasons, and > more!
https://theintercept.com/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands/ is an interesting story on the subject.. JTRIG managed to steer public opinion in argentina concerning falklands, avoiding another crisis as in 1982... using automated manipulation of opinions of individuals, so it is quite different from regular "media manipulation" which was available in 1982 as well and couldn't have worked. this may sound like a cool feat to avoid a war, but consider also that the uk managed to impede an entire population from expressing their democratic will. in other words, these methods based on JTRIG and KARMA POLICE dismantle democracy at its foundation - the ability to form a political opinion and to make government act accordingly. this is what the secrecy of correspondence was supposed to protect us from, but the authors of our respective constitutions didn't foresee that we would start communicating digitally and make it laughably easy for attackers to manipulate us completely. for as long as we do not produce a surveillance-resistant social networking and communication platform, we are not in a state of democracy. anywhere in the world. i cannot imagine any higher political priority than to fix the internet and create a distributed social network to replace facebook and the like. what do you think? -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
