NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 26, 20197m 34s
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Show Notes
The phony Facebook pages looked just like the real thing. They were designed to mimic pages that service members use to connect. One appeared to be geared toward a large-scale, military exercise in Europe and was populated by a handful of accounts that appeared to be real service members. In reality, both the pages and the accounts were created and operated by researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, a research group that's affiliated with NATO.
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