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Pretty interesting, good investigation. The whole thing seems remarkably amateur and low effort. Their slide of limitations is revealing - lack of language ski
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Pretty interesting, good investigation.
The whole thing seems remarkably amateur and low effort. Their slide of limitations is revealing - lack of language skills, no real process for handoffs over vacation times, use of a dedicated URL shortener that only GCHQ use instead of the many commercially available ones - these seem like basic errors. I find it hard to believe that this was a well funded effort or even achieved much at all.
It also casts some new light on the "Russian bots are taking over" establishment meltdown. Projection much? Obviously western government figures know their own staff are doing this sort of thing, so they assume that Russia is too and the lack of hard evidence of the type shown in this talk is neither here nor there.
- gandhium 9y agoAssume? There's tons of info on Russian troll factories, even from insiders who took part in pushing 'Russkiy mir' agenda around.
- Fnoord 9y agoReminds me etching of "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best" on certain DEC MicroVAX machines [1]. Cause they knew the Russians were copying. I also remember the US government warning for external government interference, using the Internet. At that time they were already onto it themselves. Its difficult for us citizens to decide who's ahead of the game. We'll only know it in hindsight. [1] http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html [2] http://simh.trailing-edge.com/semi/cvax.html http://simh.trailing-edge.com/semi/cvax.html
- yakitori 9y ago> It also casts some new light on the "Russian bots are taking over" establishment meltdown. To be fair, "russia" spent $100K on facebook ads and won the election for Trump. /s If you pay attention, it's obvious there are some russian, chinese, saudi, etc manipulation on social media. But the vast majority of the manipulation and "fake news" on social media is pushed by the british, israel, EU, Canada, etc. Not only that, their social media manipulation is also backed by the establishment media. How much "Prince Harry marries X" and british royal family is all over the media and social media along with the sock puppets manipulating the conversation?