Psychological warfare - Revision history

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‎Books

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‎Cyberbullying

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‎(Counter) moves

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‎Sockpuppetry

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‎Detecting promotion of specific form of intent

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‎Digital morphing

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‎Digital morphing

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‎Specific form of intent

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 === Books ===
-'''Immunisation'''
+'''Mobbing'''
 * The art of deception: Training for a new generation of online covert operations http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/feb/the-art-of-deception-training-for-a-new.pdf
 * The grand chessboard: American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives http://www.takeoverworld.info/Grand_Chessboard.pdf
 * The roots of behaviour in war https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0854.pdf
 * The science of coercion https://historicalunderbelly.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/0195102924.pdf

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 === Cyberbullying ===
-Cyberbullying is also not under our control. And in the current state(s) of society, some of our little ones and more vulnerable members of society are in need of help, the help they are not getting locally because for example, everybody is too busy making money and racing around for that. See [[cyberbullying]].
+Cyberbullying is also not under our control. And in the current state(s) of society, some of our little ones and more vulnerable members of society are in need of help, the help they are not getting locally because for example, everybody is too busy making money and racing around for that.
 == (Counter) moves ==
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 * You may need to delete your current e-mail and social media accounts, phone accounts and set up new ones (unless you are keeping the account(s) active to try and catch the cyber bully).
-More specifically for the gendersec context:
+More specifically for the gendersec context see [[Step_2#Dos_and_dont.27s_supporting_people_subject_to_online_violence|dos and donts supporting people subject to online violence]].
-* [[Step 2|Build safe spaces on and offline]]
-* [[Step_2#Dos_and_dont.27s_supporting_people_subject_to_online_violence|Dos and dont's supporting people subject to online violence]]
-−
 === Sockpuppetry ===
 There are many (other) reasons for us for consciously creating multiple, fake, anonymous or pseudonymous identities online (without becoming the petty tyrants we fight):

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 == (Counter) moves ==
 === Digital morphing ===
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 === Underminers ===
 Underminers is a book and a movement using a highly practical approach to the process of undermining in all its many hues. At once entertaining, shocking and inspiring, Underminers draws on the author’s own experience dealing at first hand with the lies of the industrial machine, and that of a wide range of other people who have their own unique take on the swath of topics covered in the book.
 === Sockpuppetry ===

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 We were favouring "listening" and "viewing" when in the 1990’s, the story of communications technology changed into the growth of computer communications favouring "free expression". A story of personal websites, blogging, free software, patent trolls and licensing struggles, social media, tunnels, protocols, cycle upon cycle of new hardware and software and a digital security arms race unfolded. The war-work-machine rolls on.
-Pre-preparing the publics' minds (whether that happens intentionally or develops opportunistically) for specific events that catalyse massive shifts in governmental policy direction using films and documentary concepts (promoting specific forms of intent) is not a new thing. It is just much more advanced these days.
+Pre-preparing the publics' minds (whether that happens intentionally or develops opportunistically) for specific events that catalyse massive shifts in governmental policy direction using films and documentary concepts (promoting specific forms of intent) is not a new thing. It is just so much more "advanced" these days.
 == Bag of digital tricks ==
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 === Sockpuppetry ===
-Sockpuppetry (using false identities for deception) is centuries old, but the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier than ever before. And we can make our own sockpuppets, if only for understanding our adversaries and finding (counter) moves. See [[sockpuppetry]].
+<em>The internet has become a battlefield for virtual personalities—sockpuppets all attempting to gather information and using that information to help their causes and hurt their enemies. It’s a war without bystanders, for we’re all caught up in the fighting, whether we’re aware of it or not. </em><ref>Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?<em> </em>http://www.penguin.com/book/virtual-unreality-by-charles-seife/9780670026081</ref>
 === Trolling ===
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 === Underminers ===
 Underminers is a book and a movement using a highly practical approach to the process of undermining in all its many hues. At once entertaining, shocking and inspiring, Underminers draws on the author’s own experience dealing at first hand with the lies of the industrial machine, and that of a wide range of other people who have their own unique take on the swath of topics covered in the book.
 == Resources ==

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 === Detecting promotion of specific form of intent ===
-Pre-predictive programming is a research field sifting carefully through subtexts, semiotics, dialogue, conceptual architectures and  basically identifying synchronous random anomalies with the subtly deliberate insertions in movie scripts, stories, documentaries, news, etc, that exist only to promote a '''specific form of intent''' in the collective publics mindset.
+Pre-predictive programming is a research field sifting carefully through subtexts, semiotics, dialogue, conceptual architectures and  basically identifying synchronous random anomalies with the subtly deliberate insertions in movie scripts, stories, documentaries, news, etc, that exist only to promote a specific form of intent in the collective publics mindset.
-Effective countermoves ao such promotions of specific forms of intent re roleplay and controlled folly, and building our own knowledge and resource bases for (re)interpretation.
+Effective countermoves to such promotions of specific forms of intent are resetting our own direction and intent, for example by roleplay and controlled folly, and building our own knowledge and resource bases for (re)interpretation of physical and emotional information.
-For example, The Grand Chessboard, a fictional novel using the traditional narratives of state-centric Westphalian order as a necessary condition of international relations, can be used as a DIY exercise in pre-predictive programming research, where the reader is the central character of the novel. <em><strong>Word of warning</strong>: If taken serious, reading leads to causal fallacies and an almost inevitable blindness to the role and impact of non-state actors.</em>
+For example, The Grand Chessboard, a fictional novel using the traditional narratives of state-centric Westphalian order as a necessary condition of international relations, can be used as a DIY exercise in pre-predictive programming research, where the reader is the central character of the novel. <strong>Warning</strong>:<em> If taken serious, reading can lead to causal fallacies and an almost inevitable blindness to the role and impact of non-state and non-corporate actors.</em>
 === Underminers ===

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 === Digital morphing ===
-Digital morphing of the first kind, altering what an image looks like, is in use in psychological operations and has been on the rise, especially on twitter and facebook. Horrible images of children that were sometimes taken years before, or images delivered as "proof" of certain troops being "somewhere" yet small letters on a sign are in hindu, those are easy to detect using  TinEye. <ref>TinEye: Reverse image search https://www.tineye.com/</ref> This tool will show you previously uploaded images of an indicated image on the net. Note that if it isn't found by Tineye, it doesn't mean it's not morphed. The image may be new (and altered), or not in Tineye's database. But if an older version is found that is different, likely the image you have that is different was morphed.
+'Digital morphing', altering what an image looks like, is in use in psychological operations and has been on the rise, especially on twitter and facebook. Horrible images of children that were sometimes taken years before, or images delivered as "proof" of certain troops being "somewhere in the middle east" yet small letters on a sign in the background are in hindu, those are easy to detect as having been tampered with using  TinEye. <ref>TinEye: Reverse image search https://www.tineye.com/</ref> This tool will show you previously uploaded images of an indicated image on the net. Note that if it isn't found by TinEye, it doesn't mean it's not morphed. The image may be new (and altered), or not in Tineye's database. But if an older version is found that is different, likely the image you have that is different was morphed.
-In which case you can use other techniques that work on the assumption that although digital forgeries may leave no visual clues that indicate tampering, they may alter the underlying statistics of an image. The set of image forensic tools for passive or blind approach for manipulation detection can be roughly categorized as pixel- based techniques, format-based
+In which case you can use other techniques that work on the assumption that although digital forgeries may leave no visual clues that indicate tampering, they may alter the underlying statistics of an image. The set of image forensic tools for passive or blind approach for manipulation detection can be roughly categorized as pixel- based techniques, format-based techniques, camera-based techniques and geometric based techniques.
 techniques, camera-based techniques and geometric based techniques.
-=== Specific form of intent ===
+=== Detecting promotion of specific form of intent ===
-Pre-predictive programming is a research field sifting carefully through a movies subtext, semiotics, dialogue, the movies conceptual architecture and  basically identifying the synchronous random anomalies with the subtly deliberate insertions in movie scripts that exist only to promote a '''specific form of intent''' in the collective publics mindset.
+Pre-predictive programming is a research field sifting carefully through subtexts, semiotics, dialogue, conceptual architectures and  basically identifying synchronous random anomalies with the subtly deliberate insertions in movie scripts, stories, documentaries, news, etc, that exist only to promote a '''specific form of intent''' in the collective publics mindset.
-Effective countermoves are roleplay and controlled folly and building our own knowledge and resource base.
+Effective countermoves ao such promotions of specific forms of intent re roleplay and controlled folly, and building our own knowledge and resource bases for (re)interpretation.
-For example, The Grand Chessboard, a fictional novel using the traditional narratives of state-centric Westphalian order as a necessary condition of international relations, can be used as a DIY exercise in pre-predictive programming research, where you, the reader, are the central character of the novel. <em><strong>Word of warning</strong>: If taken serious, reading leads to causal fallacies and an almost inevitable blindness to the role and impact of non-state actors.</em>
+For example, The Grand Chessboard, a fictional novel using the traditional narratives of state-centric Westphalian order as a necessary condition of international relations, can be used as a DIY exercise in pre-predictive programming research, where the reader is the central character of the novel. <em><strong>Word of warning</strong>: If taken serious, reading leads to causal fallacies and an almost inevitable blindness to the role and impact of non-state actors.</em>
 === Underminers ===

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 === Digital morphing ===
-Digital morphing — voice, video, and photo — is now readily available on personal computers. It is very simple to tamper with any image and make it available to others. Compositing is perhaps the most common form of digital tampering with images. Image morphing is a digital technique that gradually transforms one image into another image, and to increase the confusion on what is meant by using the word "morphing", the term has been applied by non-specialist to refer to a broader class of digital tampering which is probably better referred to as re-touching. In contrast, computer generated images can be generated entirely by a computer and a skilled artist/programmer.
+Digital morphing — voice, video, and photo — is now readily available on personal computers. It is very simple to tamper with any image and make it available to others. Compositing is perhaps the most common form of digital tampering with images. Image morphing is a digital technique that gradually transforms one image into another image, and to increase the confusion on what is meant by using the word "morphing", the term has been applied by non-specialist to refer to a broader class of digital tampering which is probably better referred to as re-touching.
 While "image enhancement" cannot fundamentally alter the appearance or meaning of an image (as compositing, morphing and re-touching do), it can still have a subtle effect on the interpretation of an image – for example, simple enhancements can obscure or exaggerate particular image details, or alter the time of day in which the image appears to have been taken. In addition to all of these, images and videos can have invisible alterations like digital watermarking for protecting copyright, and hidden files added by steganography applications.

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-Wikipedia defines "social engineering" as "''psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme.''" Although it has a bad name, aspects of social engineering
+Wikipedia defines "social engineering" as "''psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme.''" Although it has a bad name, aspects of social engineering actually touch many parts of daily life. <ref>Wikipedia: Social Engineering (security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29</ref>
 actually touch many parts of daily life. <ref>Wikipedia: Social Engineering (security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29</ref>
 Webster’s Dictionary defines social as "''of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society <social institutions>''" <ref>Webster's Dictionary: Social http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social</ref> and engineering (in this context) as as "''the control or direction of something (such as behavior)''". Next to it is the definition for another context of engineering: "''the work of designing and creating large structures (such as roads and bridges) or new products or systems by using scientific methods''". <ref>Webster's Dictionary: engineering http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering</ref>
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 When a social engineer communicates they are trying to bring someone else into their space and share that personal reality.  The goal of a social engineer is to give both the verbal and nonverbal cues to alter the perception of the target (individual or group) so as to have the impact the social engineer desires.
-=== Specific form of intent ===
+=== Promotion of specific form of intent ===
 Pre-preparing the publics' minds (whether that happens intentionally or develops opportunistically) for specific events that catalyse massive shifts in governmental policy direction using films and documentary concepts (promoting specific forms of intent) is not a new thing. It is just much more advanced these days.

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	Rewriting history and disinformation tactics were such a success in the past that the tactic was expanded on for online use in what has been named "the fog": ''Computer scientists call it "Fog Computing" — a play on today’s cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for Darpa, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm, researchers say they’ve built "a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation … and then tracking access and attempted misuse of it. We call this 'disinformation technology.'"'' <ref>Wired Danger Room: Fog Computing http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/fog-computing/</ref>		Rewriting history and disinformation tactics were such a success in the past that the tactic was expanded on for online use in what has been named "the fog": ''Computer scientists call it "Fog Computing" — a play on today’s cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for Darpa, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm, researchers say they’ve built "a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation … and then tracking access and attempted misuse of it. We call this 'disinformation technology.'"'' <ref>Wired Danger Room: Fog Computing http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/fog-computing/</ref>

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 * Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes http://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_Attitudes.pdf
 * The roots of behaviour in war https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0854.pdf
-'''Underminers'''
+'''Undermining'''
 * Underminers, A Practical Guide for Radical Change http://underminers.org/