I had intended to take this week off from posting, and in
general IT publications are pretty boring. However the article “Hacked emails
reveal China’s elaborate and absurd propaganda machine” (see http://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/
- below the Computer Associates Ad and also the photo source) seemed to be the
exception to both.
The kind of effort described by the article is a long term
effort best employed against connected and mainly urban societies. These kind
of efforts are also typical of environments where government controls or seeks
to control the information environment.
While direct conflicts may not take place in these
government controlled areas, it makes sense to understand how these tactics
work and how they could conceptually be adopted or altered for our own
advantage. For example would the same workers change their allegiance for 75
cents a posting rather than 50?
Happy New Year to one and all.
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