Comment by anonym29
4 days ago
Name calling, bullying (forms of systematic harassment) and attempting to instill feelings of social isolation in a target are documented techniques employed by intelligence agencies in both online and offline discourse manipulation / information warfare.
You can read up more here if you are curious: https://www.statewatch.org/media/documents/news/2015/jun/beh...
Many of the attacks against djb line up quite nicely with "discredit" operational objectives.
Don't forget the ever popular CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
Very nice document, I have to say. I was surprised that they care so much about hacktivists.
Are the strategies you mention actually in the document? It seems like one particularly focused on very soft tactics.
Bully and systematic harassment of cryptographers too build in backdoors too there encryption systems has been there go to strategy since the 80's.