A US government-funded effort to create a Twitter-like social network in Cuba called ZunZuneo was exposed this month. It was done by USAID, not an intelligence agency like the CIA, and peppered users with casual surveys and quizzes to try to figure out their ideological. Perhaps the plans were to make people most sympathetic to the US the most influential on the network. In Mexico, actual people, rather than bots, are hired to tweet for political candidates. On Tinder, users who swiped yes to attractive women and later asked what are you up to would get Right now im relaxing a bit and playing castle clash on my phone. Have you heard about that game? OkCupid wants to build cognitive security into its site, by designing its own defense bots that will flirt with invader bots, courting them into a special room, a purgatory of sorts, to talk to one another rather than fooling the humans. All this stuff is being called cognitive hacking now.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:30:59 +0000
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