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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 11:30 AM Jul 2019

And this is how democracy dies.




Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
@CISAgov
With pineapple or without? Which way is the right way to have your pizza? #waronpineapple (link: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0717_cisa_the-war-on-pineapple-understanding-foreign-interference-in-5-steps.pdf) dhs.gov/sites/default/…


OMFG. We're worried about our next election getting hacked and the people who actually could do something about it are asking about fucking pizza toppings? At least they're getting destroyed in the comments.
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And this is how democracy dies. (Original Post) Initech Jul 2019 OP
They're just trying to be "with it" underpants Jul 2019 #1
Great Yogi quote about Trump: Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #7
I think it's a rather helpful way to illustrate how cyber-ops on social media take place. Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #2
My thought as well Yonnie3 Jul 2019 #3
Appears no one is reading the PDF. Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #5
We live in a tl;dr world Yonnie3 Jul 2019 #6
Nashville: It Don't Worry Me . . . . . no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #4

underpants

(182,736 posts)
1. They're just trying to be "with it"
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 11:33 AM
Jul 2019

Drum up some hits.

Because the pineapple thing is so cool....in 2015.

Yogi Berra once said he was getting a pizza and the guy asked him, “You want this cut into 6 or 8 slices?”
Yogi said, “Make it 6. I don’t think I can eat 8”

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
7. Great Yogi quote about Trump:
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 11:47 AM
Jul 2019

"It ain’t over 'till we kick that fat, orange shitgibbon to the curb of 1600 Penn!"

Okay, I paraphrased a bit.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
2. I think it's a rather helpful way to illustrate how cyber-ops on social media take place.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 11:33 AM
Jul 2019

Are people actually thinking this is about pineapples and pizza??

I mean, the disclaimer is near the top of the PDF:
To date, we have no evidence of Russia (or any nation) actively carrying out information operations against pizza toppings. This infographic is an ILLUSTRATION of how information operations have been carried out in the past to exploit divisions in the United States.

Yonnie3

(17,427 posts)
3. My thought as well
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 11:38 AM
Jul 2019

They show how an unimportant matter of opinion may be manipulated to more important issues.

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