Schneier on Security

ResearcherZero • October 6, 2023 5:37 AM

There was at least someone interfering to suppress investigations into Russian influence, stretching back for a very long time. Likely someone in the FBI.

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‘https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23903968-wed-redact/

“I simply couldn’t be part of it. So I resigned.”

‘https://apnews.com/article/connecticut-supreme-court-dannehy-barr-russia-investigation-cdb85689f026f05e9f87be098cd8ed40

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Divide and rule: ten lessons about Russian political influence activities in Europe

‘https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0227-8.pdf

Any sign of weakening resolve for arming Ukraine among Western leaders and legislatures is an added incentive for Putin
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/ukraine-aid-republicans-slovakia-election-putin/index.html

ResearcherZero • October 7, 2023 4:31 AM

AI can clearly be a problem for elections. AI can be used to direct a large number of accounts to target an individual and single them out for attack.

• The Frontline States: Conversations and Observations About Russia’s Other War In Europe

“Courage is not when you stand up to your enemies; it is when you stand up to your friends.”

‘https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/09/the-frontline-states/

“Under certain conditions, people can be manipulated into thinking and behaving in ways that override their critical faculties and personal choice—the mind can be ‘hacked’.”

‘https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/reports/rsa-transforming-behaviour-change.pdf

“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions.”

‘https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/2021-intelligence-community-election-interference-assessment/abd0346ebdd93e1e/full.pdf

“Today we are living in a new era of propaganda and psychological coercion emerging from the intersection of behavioral science, neuroscience, data science, and artificial intelligence. The next critical step involves an increase in public oversight and awareness of the methods, risks, and impacts of attention capture business models.”
https://consilienceproject.org/social-media-enables-undue-influence/

REPORT on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation

‘https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2022-0022_EN.html

ResearcherZero • October 7, 2023 5:53 AM

@anon

The general idea of disinformation is that important parts of the context are removed, to shape and manipulate opinion. To discredit, in order to create distrust or confusion.

Politically Exposed Persons are sometimes primed in preparation to distrust certain subjects, so that they will have a tendency to ignore warnings that they are being targeted with specific disinformation. Over time this makes it more difficult for the target to shift their position, and more likely to view the warnings themselves as the threat, painting themselves into a corner.

Russian agents prefer to nudge a useful target into doing the damage themselves, blackmail is often not the first choice for PEPs. However, any means is applicable for more isolated, average citizens, as long as it is out of public view. In those situations, violence and intimidation are regularly employed, along with financial inducement.

ResearcherZero • October 20, 2023 12:52 AM

“what is required for learning, is the metalogical realization that one’s own goals, beliefs and assumptions are fallible”

‘https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1089268020914258

Social reality is meaning that is accepted by a group at a point in time. Much of what is going on never reaches us or only partially reaches us, in distorted and incomplete ways. But is it real? More importantly, is it healthy? Social media can ultimately create a false sense of reality.

https://www.thechicagoschool.edu/insight/from-the-magazine/a-virtual-life/

“…we imagine how we look to others, draw conclusions based upon their reactions to us, and then we develop our personal sense of self. In other words, people’s reactions to us are like a mirror in which we are reflected.”

‘https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/4-3-social-constructions-of-reality

self-infiltration

Psychologists use the unnerving term “self-infiltration” to describe the situation in which we believe we are doing something we want to do but have unconsciously chosen to do something at others’ bidding. When we are out of touch with ourselves, we risk self-betrayal, allowing ourselves to be brain jacked by others.

‘https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/202110/how-self-betrayal-undermines-fulfillment