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Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks

Posted by timothy on from the surely-this-is-a-very-old-technique dept.

skipkent tips a story at Wired's Danger Room, according to which "Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away. Computer scientists call it it 'Fog Computing' — a play on today's cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for Darpa, the Pentagon's premiere research arm, researchers say they've built 'a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation and then tracking access and attempted misuse of it. We call this "disinformation technology."'"

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  1. Re:Government Already Operates in a Fog by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

    Translation: What could possibly go wrong?

    So... FOX News was the prototype for this?

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  2. I am Moredoc by DontBlameCanada · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Enabler of Disinformation Services! You may know my brother, Mordac the Preventer of Information Services.

  3. Re:aka... by zill · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I first thought this would have been more effective if they hadn't announced it.

    This is actually all fake. They pretended there was a disinformation campaign when there wasn't so that the enemies would think there is a disinformation campaign going on.

    Of course if this were true there is no way such a secret will be revealed in a random /. comment.



    Unless, of course, said /. comment is also part of the disinformation campaign







    ...or maybe that's just what they want you to think.