Snowden documents and recently published, describe the plans of the British intelligence service GCHQ, to targets in different ways to discredit. So the plan is described to reputational damage to them through blogs and forums.
Under the heading of Operation Playbook lists the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group of the GCHQ, a number of operations on that online can be used to targets in a bad light, writes The Intercept, based on documents from whistleblower Snowden. The intelligence service calls as tactics, among other things, the adjusting of photos on social networks, the creation of blogs that seem to come from victims and sending messages to family and friends. Companies to harm would the disclosure of confidential business information, posting negative information on forums and disrupting business relationships are permitted.
In addition, a few slides about human interaction, and especially about how people online interact with each other. The GCHQ describes different techniques of group dynamics to manipulation through, for example, deception, influence, and the media. If targets are, among other hacktivists called. Already came across information online about how the intelligence services ddos attacks against Anonymous and carried out.
The revelations contain few striking new insights, but to give a glimpse into the working methods and plans of the British intelligence services for information on the internet to manipulate.
