Re: [iwar] Morphing and Other Impersonations

From: B.K. DeLong (bkdelong@pobox.com)
Date: 2001-06-11 18:36:43


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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:36:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [iwar] Morphing and Other Impersonations
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At 06:30 PM 06/11/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>About 5 years ago we used this in conjunction with other attacks in a
>strategic game.  The idea was to cut off the alternative communications
>and use this to alter the political situation nationwide.  WE added
>disinformation, faking politicians in broadcasts, misassociation things
>to a third party, etc.  Very very nasty stuff.

Speaking of disinformation (or subversion of information), in "defacement 
land" we saw an interesting "edit" of several newspaper Web sites a while 
back. Adam Penenberg wrote about it in Inside.com:
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,19219,00.html

While this was more obvious then true disinformation, it was still further 
ahead of many full-page Web defacements we had seen and if these 
publications can be compromised and have obvious changes made to an article 
without effecting it's look and feel, then subtle changes can be made as well.


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