| Israel goes PSYOP with Megaphone |
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| Written by Roberto Preatoni | ||||
| Thursday, 03 August 2006 | ||||
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The Israeli answer came short after when Israeli hackers managed to hijack the satellite transmission of the Lebanese Hezbollah's tv Al manar, substituting the live streaming signal with some propaganda messages and superimposing threat messages on Hezbollah's leader Nasrallah tv-image. Now it seems Israel decided to follow Donald Rumsfeld's advices in matter of PSYOP operations...
Everthing started when the Jewish website Giyus.org (Give Israel Your United Support) noticed a poll on Albabawa.com, a popular Arabic website, asking whether the Israeli invasion in Lebanon was meant as a provocation. The Giyus.org proactive webmasters (or we should better call them prohactivist, as if we were missing a new term in our IT vocabolary) decided then to flip the result of the polls by coding a tool called Megaphone which scope is to collect from the web the current polls on the Israeli-Lebanon issue, presenting them in a convenient way in order to allow Jewish supporters to vote in order to influence the online poll. Everything works pretty much like this: Jewish supporters upon noticing a new poll on the Internet related to their conflict, report it to Giyus.org through an online form or even better through a specially crafted web-browser installable feature. From that moment, the Megaphone application broadcasts to all the Giyus.org community the necessity to vote for that poll. Judging by the "Jewish-o-meter" published on the Giyus.org homepage, already 13,600 (by the time we are writing this article) Jewish downloaded the application and are actively participating in influencing the polls. As you can imagine, in this convenient way it is possible to gather Jewish votes so to be able to change almost instantly the result of most of the published polls. Pure PSYOP, isn't it? Wikipedia has a convenient explanation for PSYOP operations: "Psychological Operations (PSYOP[US] or PSYOPS[UK, GE, NATO]) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to specific foreign and (in certain countries) domestic audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. Sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics, the purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives. As such, there must always be sufficient truth to be credible. This concept has been used by military institutions throughout history, but it is only since the twentieth century that it has been accorded the organizational and professional status it enjoys now." What the guys at Giyus.org didn't account though, is that the same tool could be downloaded and used by the much larger user-base from Arabic countries to influence the polls in the opposite direction Jewish originally wished for.
Oh, sorry... it's just my hacker's mindset, can't get rid of it.
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