OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's all in the eye of the beholder. The point I think you gloss over is > the apparent fact that Rossi is not deliberately (or overtly) "...acting in > a way that suggests investor fraud." Rossi is instead employing > passive-tactics indirectly... through his inaction he conveniently allows > individuals like you who are predisposed to assume the worst in others to > make such assumptions all by yourself. In other words, you are actually > helping Rossi's business strategy . . . > My point exactly. In intelligence and warfare deception, the key thing is to set up a fake set of circumstances that confirm what the enemy already believes. The Germans were convinced that the D-Day invasion would be at Pas de Calais. The Allies knew the Germans thought this, so they conducted "Operation Fortitude" to reinforce that expectation. You would not want to conduct a deception campaign to make the Germans think you are going to invade someplace they never anticipated or planned for. That would put too many ideas in their heads, and raise suspicions. They would think: "This must be a deception campaign, but why this target?" The idea is to lull them into thinking they are right already. Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect he does not want to take the risk of an independently > tested ecat behaving erractically. He fears the published results would > make his commercial promises look silly, even if the basic energy > producing claims are validated. > That's an interesting idea. Good point. I doubt he fears this, but he might. - Jed
