Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 09:10:12 AM

Is this a precursor to an April Fools joke?

Are you accusing Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald of having made an April Fool's joke?

There is a reason why I opened with documented facts. Not speculation or Internet navel-gazing.

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 09:10:12 AM

Or do you want us all to believe that cryptohunter and some disaffected ex-sig campaigners actually work for the CIA? Cheesy

You omitted this:

Quote from: Ploni Almoni on March 11, 2020, 06:13:06 AM

I surmise that the professional manipulators get great mileage out of obsessive trolls, greedy bounty-chasers, and random idiots. It makes their job easier. If they want to make a wreck of the forum, they really don't need to do too much themselves... they just need to play to the weaknesses of people who have bad intentions anyway.

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 09:10:12 AM

create a dramatic effect and get people to pay attention to you

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 03:09:32 PM

There's ways to go about presenting information in a way that doesn't demand attention,

Why yes, because the best way to present important information is to avoid attention. Attention is the last thing I want for the message.

And I am obviously not trying to get pay attention to me. I am good enough at that otherwise, thank you very much. For the privilege of covering up my name so as to focus on the message, I paid >0.002 BTC to set up a throwaway account where I can post images... then deliberately mangled what I said with the style of at least 3 well-known users. I think this message is very important.

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 03:09:32 PM

On one hand he's accusing trolls of being government agents, and on the other hand he's saying "don't be paranoid." Kind of a mixed message if you ask me.

Try striking a balance. See OP for suggestions how.

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 09:10:12 AM

Because you are not making any allegations with clarity and purposefully overcomplicating things,

Intelligence (and counterintelligence) work, and also ordinary police-detective work, operate on the balance of probabilities in the face of intentional deception and concealment of evidence. I am very sorry that I could not deliver an extended lesson on that in a "TL;DR" megapost that nobody would read. I want to raise awareness, make people think. Foolish of me, perhaps; but I've got to try.

Quote from: nutildah on March 11, 2020, 03:09:32 PM

I mean, the one CIA guy who was caught infiltrating 4chan (or was it 8chan, one of the chans...) was pretty dumb. So I suppose it could happen, and it could be found out,

Quote from: eddie13 on March 11, 2020, 04:06:46 PM

Their was a recent case of an agent being outed posting bait on 4chan, as nutildah mentioned, by releasing a report with screenshots of "you" in the ID of posts iirc..
It does happen and they do slip occasionally..

Yes, that happens; and the Snowden dump of the information in OP's quoted article also happened. But the evidence is rarely so clear-cut. Rather than tilting at windmills and searching for THE TRUTH, I suggest the practical, intentionally quite general advice in OP.

Quote from: Balthazar on March 11, 2020, 02:48:06 PM

Ploni Almoni is working for CIA. Cheesy

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on March 11, 2020, 03:50:16 PM

Maybe nullius has inspired them to come out of the closet

Quote from: TECSHARE on March 11, 2020, 04:26:57 PM

Great thread Nullius.

Kicking around on the Internets, I have been accused of being a CIA pro troll, an NSA hacker, an FBI agent, a Mossad agent, an FSB agent, and a few dozen others. Well, being accused of being Nullius and/or following him? Most evil of all, LOL! (Cue accusations of being other users whom I believe are being targeted...)

Stop looking for names, and take the advice in OP about words and actions, what people reveal about their goals, etc.