Foreign Informational Warfare?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I don't know if mods can check IP addresses or only admins can.

However we had two more posters today that posted....

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1377

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1376

These threads/users came from Communist China.

This is at least 5 poster(s) that have originated from China making posts of questionable or dubious nature.??They make a post or two at most then disappear.

They seem to pick out topics that would not be discussed by normal American/Canadian/UK posters yet somewhat divisive in nature to either this country or our Western allies.

I'm wondering if the Chinese government has information warfare of propaganda ministry minions scouring political message boards designed to sow dissent.??Seems to me in our instance that they're throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks.

I wonder, seriously, if some of the popular left leaning sites aren't driven, in part, by foreign agents.??If I've notice 5 posters like this in the last 2-3 weeks how widespread could the practice be?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1395

This one came from South Korean, the ISP is South Korean but.... I'm wondering if it's actually a North Korean effort.

If you look up the website for KCNA (North Korean News Service) it's located in Japan. What kind of country doesn't even have it's own domain and Internet capabilities?

Oh, I know, a socialist one.

[Labrocca]

This is really weird. PAD noticed this and I told him to post it here cuz it's just too damn interesting.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1405

One post wonder with a Brazillian IP addy.

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1406

Another one from Communist China.

We're up around 7 of these types of users/topics in the past couple of weeks.

Running total 3 Chinese ISP's, 1 South Korean, 1 Brazillian.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1424

This entire post is lifted directly from democrats.com. (http://www.democrats.com/node/9116)??The site recommends that this writing be lifted in its entirety and posted on message boards around the world.

The site is not owned, operated or endorsed by the DNC.??It's similar to democraticunderground.com.

Our poster, again, is not an American.??The registered ISP is from Finland though the original client is unknown.??It's entirely possible that this is a redirect from a third country.??We're seeing a WHOLE lot of this.

EDIT: His registered GMT time was altered from the default.??It's set at -12 from GMT which puts his location somewhere between New Zealand and Hawaii.??In other words, the chances of this being a legit user is real close to zero.

We're being targeted by some kind of spam or informational propaganda.??We see single posting users created once or twice a day.??I wouldn't waste your breath on them, they're never going to respond or come back.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1425

Another one, that's two today.

This ISP is again from China, Shanghai to be exact.

GMT time alteration is set to -12, the middle of the Pacific ocean or some island in the Aluetians.

[Anti-Racism]

Smart governments do this:


WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.

Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2289232,00.html