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athena

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16. The people have to know better than to believe Russian propaganda.

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2017, 04:47 PM

May 2017

And the media has to learn to be less gullible and less easily manipulated. The French media refused to publish the leaked e-mails until after the election. The American media would have jumped on those e-mails and talked about nothing else.

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Does every campaign now need a sophisticated counter-intelligence operation to thwart Putin? [View all] stevenleser May 2017 OP

Yes elleng May 2017 #1

Not just Putin! Mercer too! Mercer weaponized Facebook and helped cause Brexit. Sculpin Beauregard May 2017 #2

Maybe just don't send BamaRefugee May 2017 #3

Quite so to your last point. Misdirection, lies and other dishonest tactics are part of a spies stevenleser May 2017 #6

But Wikileaks selectively edited emails to piss people off- bettyellen May 2017 #9

Yes. MANative May 2017 #4

Yes. We need to be prepared. octoberlib May 2017 #5

At minimum they need an obfuscation plan ... MINIMUM !!! uponit7771 May 2017 #7

It's only prudent to assume Putin will continue his mischief dalton99a May 2017 #8

Multiple Layers of Cyber Measures will be mandatory from this day forward... MedusaX May 2017 #10

Actively feeding the hackers bullshit to trip them up is genius. phleshdef May 2017 #11

Yes, it seems that this is called offensive counterintelligence stevenleser May 2017 #17

Yes. nt JTFrog May 2017 #12

I think yes if we are going to use computers Horse with no Name May 2017 #13

We need people at campaign headquarters that know the difference between a valid Blue_true May 2017 #14

Yeah well, if you have ever been part of a corporate IT organization you know that its virtually stevenleser May 2017 #15

But in the case of Podesta he asked the IT people Lee-Lee May 2017 #22

That goes to the point you mentioned in your other post and I agree. stevenleser May 2017 #23

The people have to know better than to believe Russian propaganda. athena May 2017 #16

I suspect that the PsyOps against Putin's non-preferred candidates is only going to get stevenleser May 2017 #18

That's right. Ligyron May 2017 #19

Honestly we just need competent IT and cyber security people Lee-Lee May 2017 #20

You are addressing one of several issues. I agree about the parts you address, but there was more. stevenleser May 2017 #21