Wednesday, December 19, 2007
VNR 2.0
The good folks at Wikileaks, an organization that seeks unauthorized information regarding government misbehavior all over the World has posted a story about military personnel at Gitmo making anon postings all over the Internet to discredit the leadership of regimes the US abhors, as well as commenting on sites that criticize the military prison.
Wikileaks used a "noted computer security expert" to confirm who owned the IP address used by the posters, and the IP traces to Gitmo. As noted security expert comments: "Based on the evidence, it is obvious that these changes came from people stationed at Guantanamo Bay. The only other possibility is that someone hacked into the Guantanamo Bay computers in an effort to frame the U.S. government; certainly possible but much less likely." True dat.
Among the subterfuge:
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Wikileaks used a "noted computer security expert" to confirm who owned the IP address used by the posters, and the IP traces to Gitmo. As noted security expert comments: "Based on the evidence, it is obvious that these changes came from people stationed at Guantanamo Bay. The only other possibility is that someone hacked into the Guantanamo Bay computers in an effort to frame the U.S. government; certainly possible but much less likely." True dat.
Among the subterfuge:
- Calling the Cuban dictator a "transsexual" (seems like a good chance that they hired teenage boys to do their posting, coming up with a play on the ultimate teenage boy zinger: "you're gay.")
- Issuing numerous self-praise comments on sites that are critical of the prison in an effort to boost its Digg ranking. Among the praise: Gitmo is "a very professional place full of true American patriots. (it almost sounds like the cursing of the French guys flinging barn animals at the English in the Monty Python film "The Holy Grail"--"You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you..."
- Editing Wikipedia entries
Labels: Propaganda, VNR, Wiki
