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Harry Potter book has not been stolen.
> It is an homebrew experiment of a well known military tactic named
> Psychological Operation (
PSYOP), applied to Information Warfare.
> In less than 48 hours a fake news has realized 200 newspaper
> publication (including BBC, CNN, REUTERS) , 10.000+ blogs, many TV
> reportage, from the India to Southamerica.
> PSYOPs can be summarized as: the creation of fake information, a
> partial description or censorship applied to mass media.
> PSYOPs are widely used by non-democratic governments in different
> countries around the world and by big political-economical lobbies in
> western countries.
> Our goal was to provide to the world citizen a proof of the
> vulnerability of today information society and let them think
> seriously about that.
> Below a more detailed explaination of the operation.
> - DESCRIPTION:
> The Harry Potter book apparent theft has been made up as a simple
> exemplification of the power of PSYOP in polluting mass media
> information flow with fake and unimportant news, distracting the
> attention of the masses from real problems and their solutions.
> PSYOPs are well known since world war II, and widely used to influence
> the perception of evenements. A wide literature on the subject is
> available online and in print, from military, intelligence agencies
> and governmental sources [see PSYOPS MATERIALS At the end of this
> chapter].
> The mix who consented a completely fake news to gain in less than 24
> hours the honors of primetimes allover the world is as cheap and
> simple as terrific in its efficacy:
> . A futile but really widespread subject for which an high expectation
> is already set worldwide
> . A salad of religion, technology and language
> . An accurate choice of the entry point in the information flow
> Far more articulated Psyops are conducted every day in different
> countries around the world, manipulating at some degrees the reality
> perceived by millions of people. An example of this is China with its
> great firewall; an example of how the perception is manipulated in
> such a country is cited by Bruce
> Schneier:http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/googlecn_censor.html
> Psyops are considered by military a tactical tool in the Information
> WarFare field, a lot of governmental and private organizations are
> using those attacks against the information system.
> Could we distinguish what is true from what is manipulated?
> Are you aware that information warfare is for real and not only a good
> subject for best sellers' novelists?
> - COMMON & LESS COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN PSYOP
> DoD (Department of Defense, US) Information Operation and Cyberwar,
> explains in some documents [see PSYOPS MATERIALS at the end of this
> chapter] how PSYOP usage is increasing, principally because of the
> sinergy among worlwide communication infrastructure and the intrinsic
> power of PSYOP techniques.
> Others governmental papers define PSYOPS as tools for influencing
> decision-making in domestic audience.
> Targets of PSYOP can be different: in our scenario we choose to target
> ordinary people, in order to demonstrate how little effort is needed
> in order to achieve the worldwide diffusion of wellbuilt news.
> USA are not the ones who investigate and use these techniques and
> tactics for influencing, by altering their perception of evenements,
> the masses or the decision makers.
> Controling the masses is a formidable tool for putting under pressure
> the decision makers.
> What we see everyday in the news, in a way that is indipendent from
> the media streaming them, is a battle for the control of our
> perception of facts.
> Let's see how PSYOPs can be deployed, by leveraging on the global
> media stream:
> 1) by building fake information for primary effect: a fake, or a
> partial depiction, news is spread along the more influencial media.
> The better this news is built and sustained, the more impact it will
> have on the perception of originating facts among the media consumers.
> An important effect is that the attention is distracted from the fact
> and its eventual witnesses.
> 2) by building fake information for manipulating large consensus. It
> is possible to create news for attracting attention around a person, a
> society, a trend. The apparent target are the news consumers inteneded
> in terms of "public opinion". By this way is possible to foster
> support to unpopular governmental decisions or to damage the consensus
> towards someone or something. The latter being the actual target of
> this kind of operations.
> 3) by building fake attribution of an anonymous action: when an
> unpopoular action bring the attetion, the attribution or the linking
> to a certain organization, society, etnicity, produces a negative view
> of the target. Even if the news is later denied, the first perception
> made a strong point in conditioning the media consumers.
> 4) by manipulating the timing of news disclosures in order to attract
> and/or retain the media consumers attention: time control the
> publication,
> insist on old notice, expose with strong emotional language.
> 5) by censorship, both implicit and explicit. Explicit censorship scan
> be acted by suppressing news from the media stream (default policies
> for military deployed in war, dictatorial governments, national
> emergency situations when spreading panic could be harmful for nation
> stability).
> Implicit censorship is better acted on internet by low ranking in
> search engnines, blog manipulations and/or restriction, limitating by
> technical means the access to uncontrolled sources of information
> (China great firewall).
> A drawback effect of this form of censorship is that, for its nature,
> internet is yet for the great part not controllable.
> All the mentioned techniques are used by a plethora of selfdefining
> democratic countries to control the way we perceive their lobbyistic
> management of collective goods.
> Goya, Francisco The sleep of reason produces monsters.
> - PSYOP MATERIALS
> The documentshttp://rapidshare.com/files/38768457/WAR-dot-COM_-_the_internet_and_P......
> The collection of all documents in PSYOP_MATERIAL.ziphttp://www.momoshare.com/file.php?file=3e1e54d89867046019cb4c3a0ad0234b
> - FACTS IN PSYOPS
> The internet censorship tool of Chinese Governmenthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4587622.stm
> Google acknowledge to censor itself for chinahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm
> China will monitor and censor SMShttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/03/0035224
> Television censorship in Chinahttp://www.cfr.org/publication/11515/
> Psyop of Russian government against Chechnyahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_censorship_of_Chechnya_coverage
> Russian censorship and control of informationhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/23/opinion/edorttung.php
> US PsyOP in Afghanistan against Talibanhttp://www.time.com/time/columnist/waller/article/0,9565,187810,00.html
> US psyop expert worked at CNN during Kosovo Warhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/cnn-a18.shtml
> Bush won election because of the psyop on terrorismhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/280206binladenshelp...
> - THE HARRY POTTER HOAX RECIPE
> . The motivation: Religion as opium of the people (Karl Marx)
> The soidisant thief is motivated by religious concernings expressed by
> the actual Pope of the catholic church about Harry Potter.
> . The "undeniable news"
> The theft of the last book (7 millions of copies are expected to be
> sold the first day of its appearance on the bookstores shelves) of
> Harry Potter's saga, one months before its publishing date.
> Undeniability is because "if the editor had ufficially answered to
> thess rumors, maybe they're real!", but also in absence of official
> ansmer rumors continue to appear credible.
> Such a news can be passed mouth by mouth, link by link all over the
> world
> . The information stream entry point
> The "undeniable news" is posted on a mailing list on internet. This
> mailing list is read primarily by information security professionals
> and hackers of different kind.
> . The technical tools
> tor
> free webmail account
> Put together all the ingredients. Glue them with the poor english of
> the medium young bored wannabe and a minimum of technical depiction of
> the theft.
> By using TOR (http://tor.eff.org) to anonymize the connection, create
> an account on a free webmail and post the message on the selected
> entry points.
> Wait for the news to appear on mainstream media, leveraging on the
> fact that Harry Potter is a wellknown subject among people of all
> sort, that journalists love hackers related news, and that religious
> motivation is another intriguing attractive.
> - POLLUTED INFORMATION MAINSTREAM
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