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counter-COIN
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:57:56 -0500
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/captives-held-by-islamic-state-were-waterboarded/2014/08/28/2b4e1962-2ec9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html It's interesting to see that when people get captured the first thing that happens is they get forced to reveal their Facebook and email account information. This means their backstory has to be backed up by years of emails and fake messages. Also, how eerie would be it be to have someone at ISIS messaging your parents or wife from your own Facebook? Basically Facebook lets them torture your whole family...it's the application of our own modernized counter insurgency tactics <http://www.matthewaid.com/post/102178369761/how-nsas-cyber-warriors-helped-win-sorta-the-last> to produce counter-counter-insurgency. Essentially you always have to ask yourself: "How has the Internet changed this thing, whatever it is?" and it looks like we have our answers... It's probably a wise thing to have everyone going into the field remove everything in their personal accounts, delete their Facebook, and go in without any online connections at all. If you make it a policy, then it's believable. -dave
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