Military Creates Fabricated Online Personae

[Palmer]

Not actual synthetic humans, just fake personae.
Apparently these 'fabricated personae' are all over Facebook and other places on the net for 'collection'.

The article has underlying biased towards the military and non-progressives though, which makes me wonder if this article itself is partially fabricated/mostly just slander.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/r ... al-people/
According to the above:

These days, with Facebook and Twitter and social media galore, it can be increasingly hard to tell who your "friends" are.

But after this, Internet users would be well advised to ask another question entirely: Are my "friends" even real people?

Reading even further through the article...

they also crafted detailed proposals for software that manages online "personas," allowing a single human to assume the identities of as many fake people as they'd like.

[Ashreal]

For those people who just add others wether they know them or not............ look aout!

[Voly]

Facebook has a friend cap of 5000. More likely they'd use fan pages.

[Palmer]

Yeah, that would make more sense too, because not everyone just adds random people who try to add them.

However the article implies that it's not just Facebook.

[HeRetiK]

Seems like HBGary, the company that counter-compromised by Anon is or was actually working on a software that would allow the easy installment and management of collectives of personaes (in other words, generating and establishing online personalities across several communites and social networks)

In other words, not only the military is interested in this kind of technology, but also marketing and PR agencies - in other words, every entity that is interested in shaping and changing opinions.

edit: Nevermind, I didn't bother to read the article before posting this.

edit edit: I still didn't read the article.

[Palmer]

Seems like HBGary, the company that counter-compromised by Anon is or was actually working on a software that would allow the easy installment and management of collectives of personaes (in other words, generating and establishing online personalities across several communites and social networks)

In other words, not only the military is interested in this kind of technology, but also marketing and PR agencies - in other words, every entity that is interested in shaping and changing opinions.

edit: Nevermind, I didn't bother to read the article before posting this.

edit edit: I still didn't read the article.

I don't understand... Can you break that down a little bit more.

[HeRetiK]

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[Palmer]

Oh you figured me out.
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