https://www.wired.com/story/cctv-malinformation-iran-protest/
"While Jamal Khashoggi was being carefully slaughtered in the Saudi consulate
in Istanbul, a (clumsy and not much alike) man was trying out his shoes and
clothes. The plan was for the imposter to appear on CCTV cameras while exiting
the consulate and walk back to Khashoggi’s residence. The plan eventually blew
up, because the Turkish intelligence had already bugged the consulate and
recorded exactly what had happened.
This was one of the first attempts by state actors to manipulate other states
(or publics) through CCTV footage. However, recent actions of the Iranian state
television have taken this type of information warfare to a different level.
To understand this, and the new threats that faked CCTV poses, it’s important
to know the three types of information disorder: 1) misinformation, which
refers to false information without intent to harm someone, 2) disinformation,
which refers to false information with intent to harm, and 3) malinformation
(borrowed from French), which is genuine information published with intent to
harm, the clearest example of which is revenge porn or leaks.
Although disinformation has been extensively discussed as a powerful weapon
employed by state and non-state actors, especially given the quick rise of AI
tools capable of generating fabricated texts, sounds, and moving or still
images, it is malinformation that creates the most potent opportunities for bad
actors. Since most common forms of malinformation entail manipulating the
context rather than the information itself, they can scale more cheaply and
more quickly. It is often more difficult to debunk a manipulated context of a
genuine piece of information."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 33 Issue 64:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/33/64#subj32
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
