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How Russia is locating Ukraine's arms factories using open sources – and what needs to be done about it (www.pravda.com.ua)
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An interesting article in that it gives many specific examples of how pictures can be geolocated from seemingly meaningless details.

Usually we see this being used by open source researchers to fight disinformation and misinformation but it is also worth thinking about the information that is accidentally revealed from a seemingly innocuous photograph in this day and age.

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[–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

A while ago Ian Mcollum from Forgotten Weapons analysed an Al-Qassam-produced video showing a (supposed) underground armaments facility in Gaza producing anti-material rifles. He concluded that the facility shown in the video couldn't possibly have been used in armaments production, and that it was probably set up specifically for the shoot in order to not to give the Israelis any useful clues about the actual production facilities - which is pretty sensible.

The first rule in propaganda is to always ask, "Is the propaganda worth it?"

In a lot of these cases, it simply isn't.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Except clearly it is in cases unlike the Palestinian Genocide where much of the threat is hyperbolically extrapolated from flimsy propaganda and thus yeah it isn't that fruitful.

    This article is in refernce to war (not a genocide) and the ways in which even small details can accidentally blow the cover of much larger things.

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