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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBrL-mdowY

#cyber #info war #espionage #disinformation #kgb #Youtube

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This is great

People don’t share on social media to share information but to signal.

a myriad of solutions against misinformation—from media literacy training to fact- checking—strive to help individual users make more reliable reposting choices. These interventions assume that citizens aim to spread true stories, yet lack the skills or information to reliably distinguish fact from fiction. However, a growing body of research suggests that this might not accurately reflect what drives reposting behavior.

Pennycook and colleagues (2021), for example, found evidence for an inattention-based account of misinformation spreading, suggesting that people generally wish to avoid disseminating false content and are typically able to tell truth from falsehood—but, in the context of social media, their attention is focused on factors besides accuracy. When deciding which news to repost, users are not primarily concerned with the story’s accuracy but with something else altogether.

We routinely engage in many communicative acts—from joking, gossiping, and storytelling to outright lying—where telling the truth is not the main objective. This article aims to contribute to the theorization of social media reposting as a form of goal-oriented communication. If users’ main objective behind reposting news is not to transmit accurate information to their network, what other purpose does this activity primarily serve?

To answer this question, this article explores seven key affordances enabled by Facebook and Twitter’s news sharing functions, namely visibility, scalability, persistence, association, meta-voicing, interactivity, and immediacy. Taken together, I argue that, beyond facilitating the forwarding of information, these affordances also render reposting an effective means for self-presentation.

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Great article on electronic warfare

#cyber #ukraine war #electronic warfare

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/nyregion/cruxy-oconnor-ira-spy-wednesday.html

#counterintelligence #counterterrorism

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Dr Wayne Lee is great reading

#warfare #history

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https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/532/notes

#espionage #counterintelligence #intelligence #Ira #pira

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Cyber is much more pervasive than people accept. Infrastructure is deeply embedded in our lives.

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https://ssu.gov.ua/en/novyny/sbu-vykryla-novu-vorozhu-botofermu-u-kharkovi-video

Cyber operations continue to be practical rather than extraordinary.

#cyber #info war

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The unit is also looking at ways to overcome Russian jamming, part of the electronic warfare being waged in Ukraine in parallel to the bombs, shells and missiles. At present, Aerorozvidka typically waits for the Russians turn off their jamming equipment to launch their own drones, and then it sends up its machines at the same time. The unit then concentrates its firepower on the electronic warfare vehicles.

Honchar describes these technological battles, and Aerorozvidka’s way of fighting, as the future of warfare, in which swarms of small teams networked together by mutual trust and advanced communications can overwhelm a bigger and more heavily armed adversary.

“We are like a hive of bees,” he said. “One bee is nothing, but if you are faced with a thousand, it can defeat a big force.

#warfare #cyber #information operations

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https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/who_says_you_cant_predict_the_future/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/

#espionage #counterintelligence

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Lol

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#analysis