How special services control forums

[частный детектив Кременчуг]

How intelligence agencies control forums

This article is about how information wars are conducted on the Internet. More precisely - on online forums. The bb-mos blogger in LiveJournal shared how to calculate and anticipate the work of motivated employees of special services and sex workers, which are often “on duty” on the Web in forums, in communities or in individual diaries of interest to them.

“If the media easily controls the power through licensing and financing, personnel selection, and tacit censorship, then with the Internet everything is more complicated. On the Internet, you cannot close a hosting service located abroad, you cannot select a domain name that is legally registered in a private name, it is not always possible to put pressure on a moderator. The lack of control levers forces intelligence agencies to redirect more and more money from media control to control of online publications, websites and especially forums.

Since prohibitive measures do not work here, two others remain - persuasion and clogging . For the first, competent specialists, social scientists, political scientists are needed. In the FSB, there’s nothing like that, so the main occupation of the special services on the forums is clogging . Currently, all forums, depending on attendance, are assigned to one, or more often, to several special services officers, sometimes knowing each other, sometimes not even suspecting that they are rude to the same special services officer.

How to establish control over the forums or their destruction:

All that I am writing now is the result of my own observations, conversations and analysis. In my lifetime, several forums were completely destroyed and abandoned by visitors. The way they disintegrated allowed me to come to the conclusion that they were specially destroyed.

Methodologies simple:

• - clogging / littering topics;

• - encouragement of base instincts (mate, personal insults, discussion not of positions, but of specific visitors, etc.);

• - the withdrawal of those to the side;

• - crowding out opponents by organizing bullying (this can be organized by one person under different nicknames, but give the impression that about a hundred people attacked a person);

• - the creation of special abbreviations or even a special language to

• and) new visitors felt uncomfortable on the forum;

• b) so that you can quickly clog various forums.

• - appeals to the moderator or others with indignation towards a particular visitor;

• - insertion into messages of repeated, long, meaningless or empty pieces;

• - frank insults towards regular visitors, etc.

It all works well on unprofessional forums, and, as a rule, it is possible in a year or two to reduce the attendance of the forum hundreds of times or to remove visitors from it with a firm position. Unprofessional (by interests) forums are not difficult to handle.

Much more hassle with professional forums:

• - from there, and visitors just leave less often;

• - it’s more difficult to chat there, because the views of the amateur there may not be heard;

• - there are more people with knowledge and fewer people willing to pick up absolutely any discussion.

Professional Forums

There, all of the above methods pass, but only if the boor has proven himself to be at least something positive. There you need to maintain your status in some other way. The main signs of sexot (secret employee) in a professional forum (as I see them):

• - Announcement of your credo - everything is possible on the Internet;

• - confirmation of their professional level not by professional judgments, but indirectly: by reports of their professional successes (promotions, received job offers, passed qualification exams, etc.);

• - periodical questioning of the forum about what can be useful in compiling a description of a visitor (smokes, does he play sports, what salary does he have, what preferences do he have in literature, films, theaters, politicians, etc.);

• - periodic change of nickname (to be more inconspicuous);

• - The presence on the forum for an extremely long time daily;

• - the presence of several nicknames (to a heated discussion with himself or another sexot lead discussions away from those);

• - the presence of special abbreviations or even a special language so that other visitors to the forum feel uncomfortable;

• - attempts to directly or explicitly show that they on the forum mean a little more than the interlocutor (get out what you are doing here, we are all ours who let you here, you fell in my eyes, your nickname is not property, your thread is not only your branch, etc.).

Who are the most active forum clogs:

• a) special services officers with Internet access and additional responsibilities for monitoring forums. They are required to constantly sit in many forums. In order to clog the forums it was easier, they make the most of abbreviations up to the creation of special stamps;

• b) secret employees (sexots). People with Internet access, previously recruited, for a small amount of money, earn extra money in controlling the Internet;

• c) system administrators, offended at all for the fact that they receive a salary an order of magnitude less than system administrators receive all over the world;

• d) chatty forum visitors who are just bored and who in the Internet rudeness see just fun.

What helps sexots:

The fact that many visitors to the forums professional tricks (slang, sidetracking, chattering, etc.) sexots perceive as a game and the opportunity to relax and participate in a common event. They readily join in empty-handed squabbles, not realizing that they were frankly used to create the background / crowd effect.

What can be done:

I understand that representatives of the special services cannot leave the forums completely, they also have children. I do not drive. Guys, we know you (some), we understand, and even respect somewhere. I write for the rest of the forum visitors. With the wish not to play along with the professionals:

• - Do not behave like a crowd;

• - think independently;

• - not succumb to herd instincts;

• - for individual discussions to see the direction where the discussion is being taken;

• - try not to abuse the stamps;

• - Avoid personal attacks, obscenities, direct insults. Criticize the point of view and specific statements, not their author. Do not get personal on the forum (try to criticize statements / positions, not the person);

• - do not change the nickname;

• - I don’t know how to use jargon and abbreviations (with the exception of professional ones) as others, but I’m not pleased when I’m addressed not by name or nickname, but by “dude”, when they congratulate me not with a shake of the hand, but with a jab in the mouth, not with the words “congratulations”, and with the words “PPCS!”, “Respect!”, “Happy Birthday”, “Rzhunimagu” “Spov”, etc .;

• - to think not only about how someone who replies to “I” will respond to “my” posting, but also other visitors to the forum;

• - Do not turn the branch into a chat if the initiator of the branch has asked about this in advance;

• - Do not play along with those who take the discussion aside;

• - Do not play along with those who organize bullying;

• - Do not race for the number of posts;

• - Do not hide behind the slogan that "everything is possible on the Internet," but rather respect yourself and others;

• - not to harass those who said goodbye to leave, but returned;

• - Do not arrange transitions to personalities and inter-conversation in branches whose topic may be of interest to others;

• - avoid garbage expressions (I think the use of IMHO is garbage. Forum is not a house in Kashchenko, so that after each phrase to remind others that the speaker is not the prophet Mohammed, not Moses, not Jesus Christ, and what I say are my words, but not the word of God or the ultimate truth).

What is written is not laws that must be constantly followed. God forbid. These, I believe, are some elementary things that will not greatly complicate the participation in the forums, but will greatly reduce the problems for those who started a thread on the forum and want to discuss a specific topic. Those who want to preserve the pig image (for a salary or just like that) can continue to do this, but with the understanding of whose dudu they play. ”

Most likely, these methods are used by special services everywhere. Although, any boarding user with the necessary human resources can do the same in their own interests.

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thanks Alexander, I read it with pleasure.

 

[DIBNN]

The article is certainly interesting, and I think it’s close to reality.
But this is what the forum should be like so that special services pay attention to it and spend forces and means on it.
There are thousands, if not millions, of forums in nete.
What say colleagues?

 

[Детективное агентство. ОДБ. Екатеринбург.]

The article is interesting.

The article is certainly interesting, and I think it’s close to reality.
But this is what the forum should be like so that special services pay attention to it and spend forces and means on it.
There are thousands, if not millions, of forums in nete.
What say colleagues?

I think that any specialized forum on a topic that may interest them.

Sincerely, Alexander.

 

[Частный детектив. Мезрин. Севастополь.]

I agree on all points. The forums use the same tactics as in ordinary life.

 

[частный детектив Магнитогорск]

I agree with DIBNN. In order to spend the energy and resources of law enforcement agencies, serious reasons are needed. If as part of a criminal case, DOP, DOR, this is understandable. And so that the employee would ban the forums, picking his nose, not having a specific task and reporting - ???

 

[частный детектив Кременчуг]

The article is certainly interesting, and I think it’s close to reality.
But this is what the forum should be like so that special services pay attention to it and spend forces and means on it.
There are thousands, if not millions, of forums in nete.
What say colleagues?

My opinion is that for such work you need one, two employees (for one topic) who can "lead" the forums. There are a lot of forces and means for this; it takes time. It is not necessary to visit them every day, but only for certain events (if a certain person is interested). The topic itself is called how they control, and do not close the "forums". If the forum needs to be "broken up" they can also hold a series of events. There are also search engines from different countries, which are controlled by special services and a ban for the site, it’s easy to get there. And new visitors mainly come through search engines.

 

[частный детектив Магнитогорск]

I do not agree. My opinion is that it makes no sense to pay a salary to an employee who just sits in the internet and watches forums for orientation, albeit somehow oriented, tendentious. To do this, there are agents and other unofficial and freelance workers.

 

[Детективное агентство. Москва. Арбат.]

I have many acquaintances there, I often asked them questions on this topic, the answer is simple - no one is following anyone, as colleagues said the wrong social danger and the wrong level, but if necessary, they can get info from social networks through their capabilities and forums, for example, when searching for suspects, working out his connections, if there is UD or DOW.

 

[частный детектив Кременчуг]

I do not agree. My opinion is that it makes no sense to pay a salary to an employee who just sits in the internet and watches forums for orientation, albeit somehow oriented, tendentious. To do this, there are agents and other unofficial and freelance workers.

I do not agree with you either. Sometimes the goals that employees set are very important. And the search for a person is an example. To work on forums sometimes requires analytics. But I am faithful that for certain tasks agents can be used, tacit and freelance workers.