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Ruining someone's reputation is not something only a government could do. Companies with enough money and a few (black-hat) SEO experts might be able to pull a

by syntern 13y ago

Ruining someone's reputation is not something only a government could do. Companies with enough money and a few (black-hat) SEO experts might be able to pull a large-scale reputation-kill to anyone who is an upcoming competitor or a pain-in-the-ass person. Small-scale reputation hacks happen all the time. What the heck, there is an industry where you can pump your own reputation up legally. So the question is: how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts (may or may not be coming from a government)?

a3n 13y ago
The question one day may devolve to: how can we use these techniques in reverse?
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  1. Get a government contracting job with a high-level security clearance and broad levels of access. 2. Assimilate significant quantities of incriminating information. 3. Disseminate this to the world via a leaking portal or sympathetic journalist. 4. Profit!
mpyne 13y ago
> So the question is: how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts (may or may not be coming from a government)? What's been working for me so far is just being pretty boring. Although I guess I could be even more boring (e.g. less arguing online ;).
dredmorbius 13y ago
how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts Good question. One is to live as honestly as possible. Including making others aware of attacks on your character. This may mean admitting your own faults or deviations, which can be painful, but it deprives your opponents of a lever or fulcrum against you. Reading the FBI blackmail letter to Martin Luther King recently, I was struck by how similar the language was to that of many modern-day trolls. Some tactics simply don't change. I'm looking for some good guides, though I'm not aware of any in particular (and the Albert Einstein Institution seems oddly silent on this point). This page has some good bits (under "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?"): http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=97573.0 http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;top...

by syntern 13y ago

a3n 13y ago

The question one day may devolve to: how can we use these techniques in reverse?

dredmorbius 13y ago
1. Get a government contracting job with a high-level security clearance and broad levels of access. 2. Assimilate significant quantities of incriminating information. 3. Disseminate this to the world via a leaking portal or sympathetic journalist. 4. Profit!

mpyne 13y ago

> So the question is: how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts (may or may not be coming from a government)? What's been working for me so far is just being pretty boring. Although I guess I could be even more boring (e.g. less arguing online ;).

dredmorbius 13y ago

how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts Good question. One is to live as honestly as possible. Including making others aware of attacks on your character. This may mean admitting your own faults or deviations, which can be painful, but it deprives your opponents of a lever or fulcrum against you. Reading the FBI blackmail letter to Martin Luther King recently, I was struck by how similar the language was to that of many modern-day trolls. Some tactics simply don't change. I'm looking for some good guides, though I'm not aware of any in particular (and the Albert Einstein Institution seems oddly silent on this point). This page has some good bits (under "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?"): http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=97573.0 http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;top...