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A comment on HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex.

Re:HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surv... by ganeumann on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:15PM (#5980113)
Curious to know where the Ntrepid $2.8 million "sock puppet" tech is spreading propaganda. I have noticed many of the same irrational comments being made on articles about Snowden in the MSM and then being voted up more than they seem to deserve (See, for instance, the comments on any NYTimes article on Snowden. Not that the NYTimes comment sections are any model of rationality normally.)

I'm biased so maybe I'm seeing things where there isn't anything, but if the tech was funded, then it's being deployed somewhere. Where other than the MSM would it make sense to deploy it, and how would the MSM identify sock puppets if they were targeted?

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Re:HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surv... by LoganCale on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:35PM (#5980207)
I don't have a source to back this up right now, but the claim when the sockpuppet program first became news was that they were only operating in non-English communities, e.g. terrorist-affiliated web forums, and that they said it would be illegal to use domestically, therefore they avoided any English usage. Whether that's actually true… who knows.
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Re:HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surv... by mindcrime on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:38PM (#5980224)
There's a pretty good article on it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...

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