{"id":3163,"date":"2012-02-22T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:10:53","slug":"hbgarys-high-volume-astroturfing-technology-and-the-feds-who-requested-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"HBGary&#8217;s high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This time, it&#8217;s internal emails detailing the creation of &#8220;persona management&#8221; software to simplify the process of pretending to be several people at once online, in order simulate widespread support for a point of view &#8212; astroturfing automation software. The software appears to have been developed in response to a federal government solicitation seeking automated tools for astroturfing message boards in foreign countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/02\/18\/hbgarys-high-volume.html\">HBGary&#8217;s high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This allowed the human actor to open a virtual machine<\/strong> or thumb drive with an associated persona and have all the appropriate email accounts, associations, web pages, social media accounts, etc. pre-established and configured with visual cues to remind the actor which persona he\/she is using so as not to accidentally cross-contaminate personas during use&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s internal emails detailing the creation of &#8220;persona management&#8221; software to simplify the process of pretending to be several people at once online, in order simulate widespread support for a point of view &#8212; astroturfing automation software. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization-2","tag-interesting-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}