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US Gov. Software Creates 'Fake People' on Social Networks to Promote Propoganda
Examiner ^ | Feb. 18, 2011 | Sean Kerrigan

Posted on 02/20/2011 6:54:49 AM PST by COUNTrecount

The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.

The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.

Click here to view the government contract (PDF)

According to the contract, the software would "protect the identity of government agencies" by employing a number of false signals to convince users that the poster is in fact a real person. A single user could manage unique background information and status updates for up to 10 fake people from a single computer.

The software enables the government to shield its identity through a number of different methods including the ability to assign unique IP addresses to each persona and the ability to make it appear as though the user is posting from other locations around the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


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1 posted on 02/20/2011 6:54:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

The 4 minute men go high tech.


2 posted on 02/20/2011 6:56:01 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: COUNTrecount

This may be the most horrifying story I’ve read in a horrifying week!


3 posted on 02/20/2011 6:56:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: COUNTrecount

We live in a science fiction story. And it’s dystopic.


4 posted on 02/20/2011 6:57:26 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The world is aflame with revolution. The year 2011 will be like 1848. Be not afraid.)
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To: COUNTrecount

This is supposed to be brand new? Please.


5 posted on 02/20/2011 6:57:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: COUNTrecount

This will only work on airheads who don’t read and can’t think for themselves...they usually don’t vote anyway.


6 posted on 02/20/2011 6:58:33 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: FrankR

They voted last time.


7 posted on 02/20/2011 7:00:20 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Gubmint Spambots-—wonderfull.

They’re probably working overtime spamming WI area newspaper website comment sections.


8 posted on 02/20/2011 7:01:18 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Travis McGee

The ability to send information to hundreds of thousands instantly and make it appear to be a personal message?

Yes, it’s new.


9 posted on 02/20/2011 7:02:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“dystopic”

Ya got me! What does that mean? My dictionaries have failed me.


10 posted on 02/20/2011 7:03:03 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

It worked in Egypt.


11 posted on 02/20/2011 7:03:04 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The potential for abuse does of course exist, but in this case, the client is the US Air Force and the contractual places of performance are listed as: MacDill AFB, Kabul, Afghanistan and Baghdad, Iraq.


12 posted on 02/20/2011 7:05:22 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Utopia -- a perfect world
Dystopia -- a nightmare world

1984 and Brave New World are both dystopic novels.

13 posted on 02/20/2011 7:05:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The world is aflame with revolution. The year 2011 will be like 1848. Be not afraid.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Oh coontrare! No it is not or don’t you get those endless crap e-mails that are sent from those soliciting either products or political campaigns? Check them out, it is addresses only to you. I think one of them is called Constant Contact.


14 posted on 02/20/2011 7:05:54 AM PST by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: COUNTrecount

US Airforce?
Contracting Office Address:
2606 Brown Pelican Ave.
MacDill AFB, Florida 33621-5000
United States
Place of Performance:
Performance will be at MacDIll AFB, Kabul, Afghanistan and Baghdad, Iraq.
MacDill AFB , Florida 33679
United States
Russell Beasley,
Contracting Officer
russell.beasley-02@macdill.af.mil
Phone: (813) 828-4729
Fax: (813) 828-5111


15 posted on 02/20/2011 7:07:30 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: COUNTrecount

I’ve seen these bots in action on financial sites. “Bernanke good - gold bad!”


16 posted on 02/20/2011 7:07:39 AM PST by Big Bronson
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To: mazda77

Facebook postings are different than Constant Contact.


17 posted on 02/20/2011 7:09:28 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Just creating the fake people to back up the fake votes. Imagine if we vote by the Internet. Chocago’s dwindling population, fewer now than in 1920, will have a resurgence of Chicagoans.


18 posted on 02/20/2011 7:16:21 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: COUNTrecount

This is great; soon we’ll have “FReepers” posting about how efficient our government is, how intelligent our “president” is, how thin his wife is, how low our tax burdens are, etc.

How bizarre...


19 posted on 02/20/2011 7:16:21 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: cripplecreek

Who’s the BOT and who’s not?

That is the question.


20 posted on 02/20/2011 7:16:39 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Best Cook on Free Republic! ;-))
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