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Reuters hacked, fake news posted
- fiatmoney 14y agoIt's not hard to imagine attacks on information dissemination platforms being used for more nefarious purposes than just propaganda - see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09air.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09air.html?_r=1 and imagine it being posted intentionally by someone with a large short position.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOf course the real danger is that they will get hacked and their coverage will actually get better :-) On a more serious note is would probably be worthwhile for news agencies to to at least put a digital fingerprint on their published stories to raise the cost of creating a credible fake story.
- gee_totes 14y agoThis sounds like the work of the Syrian Cyber Army, a pro-Assad hacker group. Some background links: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21506-assad-masses-syrian-cyber-army-in-online-crackdown.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21506-assad-masses-syr... http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/syrian-government-takes-the-battle-online/ http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/syrian-government-takes-the-...
- FSEA 14y agoAnyone have input on how to best identify the first people disseminating the false media? A few notable pro-Assad twitter users were quick with spreading the links around, started to think about potential ways to trace sharing backwards as far as possible. Suggestions?