Fourth Generation Warfare going on right under America’s nose.
As one cyber-terrorist said: “You do not need a gun to wage war in the 21st Century. All you need is a laptop and a good internet connection.”
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Good information on a problem that effects thousands of people every month in this country.
Security begins with forming GOOD habits. If you are not doing the things suggested, start now!
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
A recent article about how Google and YouTube Search Algorithims are manipulated got me to thinking.
So I emailed a good friend of mine, Mr. A, with my concerns. Mr. A works on the security side of the IT industry.
Here is what he had to say:
Technology and information warfare have reached a new stage of sophistication. Not only is psychology optimally ‘weaponized’ in the way information is presented, but carefully crafted ‘profiles’ are used by companies like Google, YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook along with numerous ad tracking companies to show you advertisements that are the most likely to influence you. If you, for example, put a search term into Google on your computer and look at the results, you will see a certain list in a certain order. If you do the same thing in a public library or on a computer at work with the identical search terms, there will be a different set of results. This is profitable for marketing purposes, but it can be used to suppress information as well.
The problem is that you don’t know what you aren’t being shown, and Google is making the decision on what you are to see! You are not being given an equally distributed set of information, but rather a curated subset of information. Twitter does ‘shadow banning’ where tweets from influential conservatives simply do not appear in the timeline of those that follow them. Again, you don’t know what you aren’t being shown, and so it is difficult to know when you have been presented incomplete information.
Additionally, disinformation campaigns are constantly being launched by extremist groups, corporations, and foreign nations aiming to flood the internet with information that confuses and divides people. Because it takes 10x more effort to refute a lie than it does to spread a lie, disinformation floods social media with disconcerting effectiveness. It’s not just about political elections either. Russia was recently caught spreading disinformation about vaccines of all things.
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous.
I don’t know about you folks, but When things like this happen it only strengthens my resolve to be more independent and self-sustaining.
I strongly encourage all of you to take the authors advice and seek training not only in communications, but every other martial/prepper skill set.
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Great Information Here. Get familiar with RFID folks, you are going to be seeing this term a lot.
