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FortWayne
2014 Jul 14, 2:06pm
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]†sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.†The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Jul 15, 3:30am
Anyone believing internet pols are a fool.
The only that constitutes a vote is a click.
I mean there's only million companies in America that specialize in generating just that.
http://rt.com/news/172724-gchq-spying-internet-tools/
And this time it involves the Brits and NSA. Funny how in the land of the free, everyone is watched, monitored, and cataloged by the big government. There is something very discomforting about this whole thing.
The tools were created by the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) within the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), according to the leaked documents.
Previous files have already detailed JTRIG's use of “fake victim blog posts” and “false flag operations,” as well as “honey traps” and various forms of psychological manipulation of online activists.
But the newly released GCHQ document, titled 'JTRIG Tools and Techniques,' gives a more comprehensive view of the scale of the operations, including how invasive they can be and how much online havoc can be caused.
Some of the tools use the same methods that the US and UK have prosecuted online activists for, including “distributed denial of service” attacks and “call bombing.”