Espionage, disinformation, monitoring military actions from inside and collecting intelligence still carries fiction-like aura from the Cold War era, with the public is naively hoping to stay in the past or, at least, Hollywood. However, as more governments around the world are waking up to realise, the art of espionage has never been forgotten. It… Read More Internet at and for war
VOA News (can’t really say I have heard that name before) recently shared a video talking about Yandex taxi system and it’s situation in Lithuania. The news got caught by international Social Media pages, promoting and spreading messages about Lithuania. The video shows a regular taxi driver in Vilnius, the capital city, telling how he knows… Read More Let’s talk Yandex
Various reports and news articles keep announcing how hackers, sponsored by, usually, the Russian government, broke into one or another database, emails, “hacking elections“, and so forth. But one moment stands out – the indifference with which accused authority or group meets the news of them being caught. Have there been any apologies, explanations from… Read More Caught red-handed
As I have already touched upon last time, manipulating the cracks inside society is an easy and effective measure for disrupting and dividing the people, making them lose trust in their own surroundings, neighbours and, most importantly, the government. During the last week, the Western world has come to know a “new” buzzword – Active Measures (rus. Активные… Read More Manipulation 101: History to be disputed
This week started with Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister pushing for the bill to make it liberalise the process of sentencing arrested Palestinian terrorists to death. The debate started three years ago, but now it was time to remind its existence and push for action in Knesset, Israeli governing body. “We won’t relent or stop until… Read More Manipulation 101: Narrative as a tool
Russian columnist Oleg Kashin recently brought attention of disinformation fighters to old-but-new strategy in Russian media – infoshum. For those who hardly recognise the word, it’s a Russian wordplay on term “white noise”, which is ambient sounds and slight noises usually used as backgrounds in sound editing to avoid complete silence, or just noise that is… Read More Let’s make some noise! The Russian way
Rule 38 of the Internet – “No real limits of any kind apply here — not even the sky“ TL;DR: how is this all related to cyber warfare? Scroll down! Spending all previous post on explaining the sort of untamed environment the Internet is, it becomes rather obvious that the discussion from now on… Read More Rules of the Internet: Right to be forgotten
We all live in this marvellous reality, where everyone can become whatever they have dreamed of, take exciting challenges, explore the most distant corners of our world and even the Milky Way, engage in military operations and activist movements without leaving our own safe space, our comfort zone. The world is under our fingers. This… Read More Rules of the Internet: No limits apply
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