1. Define Psyops & Perception Management.
Perception Management: Information operations that aim to affect the perceptions of others in order to influence their emotions, reasoning, decisions, and ultimately actions.
PSYOPS (psychological operations) Aim to influence behavior by affecting the human psyche through fear, desire, logic, and other mental factors.
2. List and provide your perspective on the 5 areas of perception management - Lies and distortions - spreading of deliberately false information or distortion of true information in such a way as to render it useless or present a different perspective, diminishes the integrity of the source providing it. - Denouncement – messages that discredit, defame, demonize or dehumanize an opponent, very often used by extremists and military groups like KKK, Nazi’s, ISIS, as well as conspiracy theories and defamation about famous people. - Harassment is unwanted messages that threaten death or injury. - Advertising – uses perception management to compete for attention ad money of buyers - Censorship – It can be defensive or offensive. With the access to technologies people have in the [resent, it will be very hard to achieve.
3. Define “Spam Wars” and provide 3 historical examples.
Junk email or Spam is a term denoting the unsolicited sending of typically commercial email, which can clog the receiver’s email box and can interfere with the delivery of desirable messages. It wastes resources and time.
Sanford Wallace (a.k.a. Spam King) formed one of the first junk emailers companies Cyber Promotions. He was put out of business in March 1998 after agreeing to pay $2 million lawsuit brought by EarthLink Network inc.
In 1998, Joseph Melle was held liable to AOL for sending over 60 million unsolicited e-mail advertisements to AOL members. The defendant was found guilty
4. Define the 6 acquisition methods of “Insiders.” - Traitors and Moles - Business Relationships - Visits and Requests - Fraud and Embezzlement
- Sabotage
- Penetration from Outside
5. Define and provide 3 examples of “Privacy Compromises” since 2001.