nobbis writes "In an article entitled 'How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations' Glenn Greenwald publishes training material from the Snowden archive that illustrates how GCHQ uses "cyber-offensive techniques against people who have nothing to do with terrorism or national security threats", for example against "Hacktivism".
These techniques include disseminating deception on-line and harming the reputations of their targets with a honey trap , a blog from a purported victim of the target, or 'changing their photos on social media sites'. Similarly companies are discredited by leaking of confidential information, or posting negative information on appropriate forums. The covert agents' play book includes infiltration, false flag, disruption and sting operations.
When questioned GCHQ replied "It is a longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters""
(Score: 4, Informative) by unitron on Wednesday February 26 2014, @01:59AM
Here's another rasher.
Over at "the other site", if you don't log in, and you look at the beta version of this story and click the thingie to get the threshold down to -1, you can see all the comments, but if you load it in classic view you can play with the sliders all you want to, but you won't see anything lower than a 2, which leaves you wondering who this cold fjord guy is and why so many people are bad-mouthing him.
It's kinda like they sabotaged the rating system for the version of /. that the smart people use, but it never occurred to them that anyone who'd willingly look at the beta version would also think to lower the threshold to see all of the comments.
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something