Saturday, August 6, 2011

What's "Deceptive Messaging" mean to everyone but DARPA?

I did a Google search on this term.  Seems that there's not a lot out there.  My first search didn't include "meme" and I got some answers about lies and truthiness in advertising, etc.  I added "meme" and got about seven thousand links to articles about SMiSC -- but I still didn't see an answer.

I'm going to create some original thought here. In the context of memes and SMiSC, a "deceptive message" is a message that:
  • might be a lie, or might be a truth, or some combination thereof;
  • might contain an omission;
  • has a strategic governmental (or corporate/NGO) purpose;
  • is specifically crafted to get a result
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  1. Tim ReynoldsAugust 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM

    While I believe you are on the right track with these thoughts I would like to add the following descriptions:

    they mislead or misdirect
    they are counter memes

    An elegant example of deceptive message is the First US Army Group and operation Quick Silver in WWII. The whole purpose of the unit was to send a deceptive message to the Nazi High Command that we were going to attack at Calais. It fits the general categories as a combination of lie and truth, it had a strategic objective and was crafted to hold the German Panzer Corps fixed to that region during the actual invasion. Some would argue that this was not counter meme since it did not counter a meme from the German forces. I disagree because it countered the actual meme of Allied troop build up in Portsmouth area . It was the ultimate deceptive message.

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