By: the-long-grass

the-long-grass — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:23:59 +0000

That “obviously going to be some fed honey trap trolling entrapment scam” is as old as the world, but it is I suspect more the “secret services” than the “po-po”, even if they obviously overlap, it is more in the style of the secret guys to blackmail or bribe anybody who could be a grass. As a result I would expect most sites that offer “anonymous VPN” or “encrypted secure email” or “password wallets” to be run by some secret service or gang.

Anyhow interesting recent “real life” human-int examples:

http://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/how-we-found-out-about-cointelpro/
“The FBI infiltrated Liberation News Service (LNS), a New Left version of the Associated Press, using disinformation to make LNS seem an FBI front, and set up a phony newspaper to hire young radicals in order to spy on them. Following a lawsuit by the SWP, it was revealed that an organization with 2,500 members had been infiltrated by 1,600 informers — thus actually strengthening the group for a time, one could reasonably suppose.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2017/aug/03/universities-stop-spying-on-their-students-now-thats-a-radical-idea
“Elsewhere, the Cambridge college Peterhouse has made the dean of chapel “responsible for the implementation of this policy, as set out in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and the Prevent duty guidance issued by the government”. Chaplains are now to be government informers, looking out for signs of deviant religiosity.
… London South Bank University (LSBU), on the edge of my parish at the Elephant and Castle, has introduced a training scheme for cleaners and catering staff to help them spot students at risk of being drawn into radicalisation. Getting them to spy on students is all part of the government’s widely unloved Prevent strategy, but what are staff supposed to look out for as evidence of radicalisation?”

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