We all know about the NSA hacking and stealing private information of every human in the world, but apparently there is a propaganda war (JTRIG) that uses dirty tricks across the internet.
Of course in this cyberwar USA primarily targets China, have you seen something suspicious that you think could be related to this cyberwar?
Well, don't be surprise the U.S. government launches propaganda on the internet to promote his "revenge" on China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpVeZVNpHfg
>>55304359
How may yuans you get paid to post here?
>>55304359
More info on JTRIG
https://edwardsnowden.com/2015/06/22/behavioural-science-support-for-jtrigs-effects-and-online-humint-operations/
Operation Earnest Voice and "traffic mixing",
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
>>55304560
>How may
learn2speak
More info
FBI admits no major cases cracked with Patriot Act snooping powers:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/21/fbi-admits-patriot-act-snooping-powers-didnt-crack/
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations - The Intercept (by Glen Greenwald, THE Glen Greenwald):
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
Lobbyists Hired Trolls To Attack Net Neutrality Articles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5vn06r1jM
Fake forum comments are 'eroding' trust in the web - BBC News:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15869683
>>55304359
JTRIG is a unit of the British Army under the UK's GCHQ, containing the "cyber specialists", which is to say, the £12K/year (yes, you read right, it does not pay well) entry-level less technically-skilled people working for the Doughnut, although they have more senior consultants on secondment to them (sometimes via external contractors) who Know Stuff and prepare tools for them - they themselves are basically military script kiddies. Professional shitposting definitely falls under their remit.
Not NSA: wrong country, you bloody fool.
I'm not personally familiar with the USA's, but I gather they have more than one, possibly more under the regular army as opposed to the intelligence agencies - it's not signals intelligence work, but offensive psyops after all, and I've seen USAF laying claim to that as lying within their purview.
Several countries have similar units, of course. Propaganda has been a tool of war and peace for millennia. China's, Russia's and Israel's units are particularly well-known and well-developed, but a lot of smaller countries get in on the action too because it is low-budget and requires no specialised technical skill - not to mention that much of it isn't anything that online marketers/shills/blackhat SEO garbage don't also do, which isn't to support it in anyway, just to say that nation state adversaries don't really have significant material advantages in this sector except for manpower, budget, time and determination - which, admittedly, count for a lot.
Other than spam, it doesn't really present a technical security problem by itself (although the means to those ends may): the issues themselves are more a social thing. Certainly a lot more people could do with learning a little operational security/counter-intelligence, perhaps to counter this sort of thing or perhaps simply because knowing things is cool.
I recommend reading the writings of the Grugq, who is probably one of your best sources on that shit.
