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‪Massive US Surveillance on Arab World‬‏ Spezify. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media. The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent. A real person using the internet.

The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent

Unfortunately we can no longer assume what we are reading is written by one of these creatures. Photograph: Jeff Blackler/Rex Features Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem. The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns that create the impression that large numbers of people are demanding or opposing particular policies. This deception is most likely to occur where the interests of companies or governments come into conflict with the interests of the public. After I wrote about online astroturfing in December, I was contacted by a whistleblower.

Like the other members of the team, he posed as a disinterested member of the public. HBGary Email Viewer: Portal - AnonLeaks. HBGary leaked emails. Manipulation de masse : un œil sur l’avenir de la communication politique dans les réseaux. Pour avoir cherché à démasquer le groupe Anonymous, HBGary, une société de sécurité informatique, a vu ces derniers s’emparer des archives emails de l’entreprise et les publier aux yeux de tous sur internet.

Manipulation de masse : un œil sur l’avenir de la communication politique dans les réseaux

HBGary, qui compte plusieurs agences fédérales ainsi que l’armée américaine parmi ses clients, a ainsi dévoilé – bien involontairement – de nombreuses informations compromettantes, dont une concernant la mise au point d’une technologie permettant à un seul opérateur d’incarner une multitude de personnages à travers différents réseaux sociaux, tels Facebook, Twitter ou MySpace. Avec un tel logiciel, une personne pourrait ainsi simuler, à elle seule, un effet de foule, une petite équipe pourrait mettre en scène une majorité. La psycho-sociologie ayant toujours cours dans le virtuel, on imagine aisément l’intérêt d’un tel outil pour quiconque voulant influencer l’opinion (et la presse) à travers les réseaux sociaux.

Five minutes and eight seconds of pure awesome. Main Page - Echelon 2. Guide to Pursuants - Echelon 2. Xdp5A.png (PNG Image, 1988x1986 pixels) Barrett Brown (BarrettBrownLOL) Anonymous 'Leader' Quits. Is Barrett Brown The Next Julian Assange? - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011. One of the few public faces of the hacktivists' collective Anonymous has quit the group.

Anonymous 'Leader' Quits. Is Barrett Brown The Next Julian Assange? - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011

It's not much of a surprise. Since the attack on Sony (which most Anonymous activists deny) the group has been in disarray, with various factions taking down each other’s websites, battling over their chat channels, and “doxing” -- revealing each other’s identities online. Brown had risen to prominence, first as a sympathetic journalist covering the group, then as someone more clearly self-identified with Anonymous (given Anonymous's amorphous structure, self-identification is all it takes to be a part of it.) He wrote articles for "The Guardian" and "The Huffington Post" saying things like this: "Anonymous hacktivists will continue to bring down the hypocrisy and tyranny of those who prefer state to citizen and the status quo to true liberty. " Others in Anonymous, however, objected to Brown taking the limelight. As I blogged a few weeks ago, the group is also divided about tactics and targets.

Operation Metal Gear. Operation Metal Gear: Anonymous. Everything Anonymous. Anonymous: #OpMetalgear RadioPayback introduction. Anonymous: Why does U.S. Central Command want to create phony online identities? Network World - The international collective known as Anonymous is trying to figure out just what U.S.

Anonymous: Why does U.S. Central Command want to create phony online identities?

Central Command wants with software that can create and manage phony identities on social networks. Called Operation Metal Gear, the effort is aimed at shining light on software that that has the potential to set up phony Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts and could help operatives manage them so they seem like they were set up by real people, with the apparent object of influencing and gathering data about the actual real people they friend. ADVICE: 7 ways to avoid getting hacked by Anonymous Anonymous members say they think the software can be used as a tracking and infiltration mechanism on social media sites, both to build profiles of actual members and to influence discussions.

It speculates that pro-U.S. U.S. According to the spokesman, the social media activities supported by the persona management software do not target U.S. Persona management system for communications. Abstract: A system to apply persona styles to written communications.

Persona management system for communications

The system includes a communication analyzer and a modification engine coupled to the communication analyzer. The communication analyzer identifies an element of original content of a written communication and determines that the element of the original content of the written communication is incompatible with a selected persona style. The selected persona style defines a communication style. Anonymous details Operation Metal Gear. The cyber activist group known as Anonymous has launched a new campaign dubbed Operation Metal Gear.

Anonymous details Operation Metal Gear

According to an Anonymous press release circulated Wednesday evening, Metal Gear is primarily investigative in nature, as it seeks to track down an enigmatic, yet sophisticated military app designed to spawn multiple cyber personalities. "This operation stems from a string of leaked HBGary emails wherein a company by the name of Booz Allen Hamilton, in direct contact with Aaron Barr, is believed to have bid on and successfully won the contract to develop an unnamed software from the US Air Force," the group explained.