Compromising evidence

[Eugen]

Recently, the use of the word “incriminating evidence” in the media has become too popular, which, rather, should be deciphered as a means of mass disinformation. What just does not call the word compromising - and banal stuffing, and fake news and scandals, and illegally obtained audio and video recordings. We decided to figure out what kind of incriminating evidence this animal is. To begin with, let's look at public sources, what they say about what is incriminating evidence. In Ukrainian and Russian Wikipedia, the text about compromising information is identical. Therefore, we give only one of them, with explanations and easy editing, both for clarification and for clarity and simplicity of presentation. So, in the opinion of the authors of the Russian-language Wikipedia, compromising evidence is evidence, evidence, a variety of materials that discredit anyone. Despite the fact that they mean "compromise" - do not indicate. The word "compromising" itself is a morpheme that has developed by abbreviation of the combination of the words "incriminating material."

The so-called incriminating evidence itself is often different types of documents (paper, photographs, video or sound recordings) that contain information that exposes the “dark” (hidden, unsightly) sides of various kinds of activities of a person or an entire organization, etc. e. her data and information that he / she / they try not to publicize.
It usually happens that the higher up the public career ladder a victim of compromising material has climbed up, the more destructive for his career and for himself can be incriminating materials. Self-incriminating evidence may become public, go by chance, or by being intentionally collected, for example, using vowels or secret surveillance. Collecting the dirt itself, for example, is the specialization of private detectives.
Compromising materials can also be used for other purposes, for example, for blackmail or for extortion. It happens that the use of compromising material for political purposes can be hyper-massed during the election campaign, rarely which of them can do without collecting and publishing compromising materials.
Such materials can completely destroy both the career of an individual person, and an entire corporation. Although there is an opposite effect, when compromising information becomes only free additional advertising.
English-language sources do not have an exact definition of the word "incriminating evidence." For them, the very concept of this word is synonymous with defamation. Thus, the Oxford English Dictionary defines compromising language as something that damages someone’s reputation, especially by making hidden details that they had a sexual relationship with a person considered unsuitable. As you can see, for the Anglo-Saxons, compromising and sex are almost inseparable.
Let's see what the English-language Wikipedia writes about compromising evidence:
Compromising evidence (Russian: incriminating evidence, abbreviation for incriminating material) is a Russian term for incriminating information about a politician or other public figure. Such materials can be used to create negative public opinion, to blackmail, or to ensure loyalty. Compromising material can be obtained from various security services, or by direct surveillance, and then published by connecting a journalist. The widespread use of compromising information was already one of the characteristic features of politics in Russia and other post-Soviet states.
One of the recent events was the creation of specialized compromising websites where, for a fee of several hundred dollars, any compromising materials are published on anyone.
Compromising as a personality trait is a tendency to put in an unseemly light, to put in an awkward, difficult position, to harm someone, to cast a shadow on someone’s good name, someone’s reputation.
Once a joker sent letters to the ten richest people in New York with the following content: “I know everything. Tomorrow I will tell the police about it. ” The next day, all ten left the city in an unknown direction. ”
Compromise as a personality trait can take root where slander, gossip, slander, and denunciation have been prescribed. Putting someone in an unfavorable light in front of third parties and there is no need for healthy competition, competition and rivalry, to collect enough dirt and this will be “above the roof” to dump a strong opponent along the career line or on the love front.
Skillful compromising since the time of Machiavelli has been an effective and efficient tool that solves vast issues in all areas of human life. And in our time, the dawn of eavesdropping and spying technologies for the "compromising people" has come a golden age. Being deceitful, quarrelsome, and selfish, compromising tries to stun the victim with fear of exposing and disclosing certain information, deprive her of peace, "knock him out of the way" and show her superiority.
Those who ask for it most often suffer from compromising. A famous story on this subject formed the basis of the novel by Alexander Dumas "Count of Monte Cristo." The real hero was called Francois Pico. The writer unearthed the history of his life in 1838 in the archives of the Paris police. Only the general plot was the same as in the novel - a successful young man decided to marry a beautiful girl. Of course, in reality, the Pico case did not have such a scope, noble development and a happy ending, as in the novel. But it can serve as a lesson. Francois too boasted of his luck - the bride was rich. His friends envied him - the owner of the cafe Lupine and his visitors Shobar and Solari. They decided to besiege the upstart and agreed to inform the police, they say, Francois blabbed in a cafe under the hop that he was spying in favor of the British. France’s relations with the British Kingdom were always tense, so Francois was immediately sent to prison without much trial and investigation for a long seven years. In prison, he met an Italian priest who, dying, bequeathed his wealth to him. After his release, François found out who had betrayed him and hired murderers who paid with blood to his offenders for libel. Soon, the avenger himself suffered because of his treasures. The ups and downs of life did not teach him anything, and the love of boasting was indestructible. The police officer who bribed him, who betrayed the names of the scammers, got his eyes on the money of François Pico, robbed and killed him. Fatum? Rather, a consequence of improper behavior.


Discrediting in politics (political discrediting)

Political discrediting existed even before the emergence of e-mail and was simply transferred to a new, electronic environment.
Letters aimed at combating political rivals began to appear in RuNet, beginning in late 2003. They have repeatedly flooded user mailboxes on the eve of elections and other major public events. Such messages are also divided into two grades: in some, a political rival is denigrated directly, while others are fakes written on behalf of an opponent (for example, the leader of a party movement).
The following techniques are used in fake letters: exaggeration of the positive qualities of a politician, turning them into negative ones; small changes in slogans or program, leading to a distortion of their meaning to the exact opposite; intentional misrepresentation of the goals for which party members committed certain acts; the use of puns that give names or names a negative connotation. A politician is a public person, and his political career, which often depends on the opinion of the majority, can be spoiled by mass actions. Spam technologies here play into the hands of unscrupulous competitors.
The last surge of political compromising evidence in spam was recorded in Russia in the fall of 2007 during the election race to the State Duma. Then one of the parties was attacked especially fiercely, on behalf of which mass messages were sent with provocative political slogans. In the letters there was a link similar to the address of the main page of the party site. If the recipient clicked on the link, then he got to the site with banners on which the party’s slogans were depicted. Due to constantly pop-up slogans, the page could not be closed without rebooting the system. Thus, the effect of imposing a party program was created in two ways: first by mass mailing, which lasted for several days, and then using a site from which it was impossible to leave.

At the end of 2007, websites began to appear on the Web containing so-called “black lists” of workers of various specialties. In such registers, any Internet user can enter an employee who has never pleased him, explaining by what parameters he assessed his inability to perform certain duties. The emergence of such resources entailed the emergence of appropriate mailings - the prospect of conveying your negative opinion about a particular person to the general public was attractive (because the number of addresses in spam databases is much larger than the number of readers of a note on a little-known site).

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Eugene, thank you for your active work at the Forum.
Thanks for the interesting stuff.

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank!

 

[Турабян Владимир]

Thank!