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Can't read the Twitter link, but that sounds made up. Where in the battlefield decision making process are they listening to social media recordings to make co
by kryogen1c 2mo ago
Can't read the Twitter link, but that sounds made up.
Where in the battlefield decision making process are they listening to social media recordings to make combat decisions?
- bpodgursky 2mo agoWhat do you think the chain of command looks like in the third world? Even in the Russia/Ukraine conflict they use Telegram for basic operations. All chat applications are dual-use.
- kryogen1c 2mo ago> What do you think the chain of command looks like in the third world? I have no idea, but Im certain that twitter recordings do not put frontline forces in disarray. > use Telegram for basic operations an encrypted private communication channel is very different than public social media
- bpodgursky 2mo agoYou have far, far too much faith in the professionalism of armed forces in the developing world. 99% of it is just random 22 year old guys with guns and dual-use communication tech.
- kryogen1c 2mo ago> too much faith in the professionalism I dont know that its a matter of professionalism. Everyone in the world has known that AI can generate video and audio that is imperceptibly fake, for years. And thats to say nothing of man-made forgeries in the years prior. I have a hard time seeing people on the front line throwing down arms and running away because of an unsourced twitter clip.
- fluffybucktsnek 2mo agoWe, as in the terminally online, have known that AI can generate imperceptibly fake footage. There are still plenty of average people who still gets caught off guard.
- robocat 2mo agoYeah, and adverts only work on other people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect Fortunately I'm from Wobegon and I'm above average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_...
- bpodgursky 2mo agoYou gotta touch grass and get outside and talk to normies. And then recognize that the normies you talk to are VASTLY MORE internet-savvy than the illiterate child soldiers on the front lines in Yemen. You have no concept of the info environment they live in. It is all magic electronic soup.
- IAmBroom 2mo ago> > What do you think the chain of command looks like in the third world? > I have no idea, but Im certain that twitter recordings do not put frontline forces in disarray. And yet as a counterexample: reality.
- prmoustache 2mo agoLast time I checked, group chats in Telegram weren't e2ee.
- londons_explore 2mo agoAnd most chat apps are either e2e encrypted or HTTPS, both of which are hard to break for third world nations. But leaks of those messages onto twitter are probably the most valuable info source for what the enemy is doing.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoThird world? Have we forgotten the Pete Hegseth Signal fiasco?
- throwaway85825 2mo agoThe ship of state is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
- lopsotronic 2mo agoIf it was involving a reasonably solid military I would agree. Sauds, on the other hand . . .
- Arodex 2mo agoIt gave demoralized soldiers an excuse to flee rather than fight. Nobody was going to question the reprieve offered by an order to retreat, even fake.
- TitaRusell 2mo ago[flagged]
- tim333 2mo agoIndia Today version https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/houthis-ai-cloned-yemeni-general-voice-helped-rebels-capture-mocha-middle-east-war-2992703-2026-09-11 https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/houthis-ai-cloned-yeme...