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It is gang stalking… methods that were widely used in totalitarian governments & systems. I’m actually kinda surprised that government use of LOIC programs (or as the Ministry of Silly Codenames call it, PREDATORS FACE) didn’t come up in earlier Snowden Revelations. Want to DDOS an anti-surveillance activist website servers? Use PREDATORS FACE! Want a heavily pro-GCHQ/NSA/surveillance state candidate to look like he’s winning in the polls in a lame attempt to demoralize “your enemies”? Juice the polls in your candidate’s favor with UNDERPASS! It’s just that while most of the trolling 4chan does is just make somebody’s life hell in the name of ‘teh lulz’ (or as the tumblr crowd are currently learning the hard way, teaching idiots that starting a fight with the biggest hornet’s nest on the internet is the worst idea in the history of bad ideas.), GCHQ’s use of those same tactics can have decidedly more nefarious goals. GCHQ using the same tactics as the legendary trolls of 4chan doesn’t seem all that surprising, to be honest. It really makes you wonder if the folks working in JTRIG are just 4chan trolls who never really had to grow up.
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Still, it is rather astounding to me just how similar many of the items sound to the kinds of things generally associated with trolling behavior. This just digs deeper into some of the other “tricks” in JTRIG’s trick bag. Last time, Greenwald highlighted its practice of putting a bunch of false info online about someone to destroy their reputation. Of course, this is not the first time that JTRIG has been called out by Glenn Greenwald for its sneaky online practices. ?For connecting two target phone together in a call? (IMPERIAL BARGE).?Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity? (CHANGELING).?A suite of tools for monitoring target use of the UK auction site eBay ((ELATE).Built by ICTR, deployed by JTRIG? (ROLLING THUNDER) ?Targeted Denial Of Service against Web Servers? (PREDATORS FACE) and ?Distributed denial of service using P2P.?Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (Youtube)? (GESTATOR).?Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website? (GATEWAY) and ?ability to inflate page views on websites? (SLIPSTREAM).?A tool that will permanently disable a target?s account on their computer? (ANGRY PIRATE).?Find private photographs of targets on Facebook? (SPRING BISHOP).Provision of real time call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. ?Disruption of video-based websites hosting extremist content through concerted target discovery and content removal.? (SILVERLORD).?Mass delivery of email messaging to support an Information Operations campaign? (BADGER) and ?mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign? (WARPARTH).?Change outcome of online polls? (UNDERPASS).Here are the programs Greenwald highlights: These include juicing internet polls to vote for GCHQ’s favorite candidate (remember when moot was voted Time’s Person of the Year in an online poll?) as well as flooding email inboxes or websites and even connecting two people on the phone and listening to the conversation. As Greenwald details (and the embedded document below reveals), among GCHQ’s capabilities in its Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) are a bunch of things that sound quite a bit like traditional internet trolling efforts. So you misspent your teenage years as a 4chan troll and are trying to figure out what to do for a career? Given the latest revelations from the Snowden Files by Glenn Greenwald over at The Intercept, you might want to consider taking a job for the UK’s equivalent to the NSA, better known as GCHQ. Mon, Jul 14th 2014 12:03pm - Mike Masnick