Great analysis on uncovering a credential stuffing attack (using passwords found from a previous breach) disguised as a "MPD hack" by "Anonymous" which Troy also discussed here. [0]
> But anger shouldn't mean throwing logic and reason out the window and I cannot think of a time where fact-checking has ever been more important than now, not just because of the Minneapolis situation, but because so much of what we see online simply can't be trusted. So by all means, be angry, but don't spread disinformation and right now all signs point to just that - the alleged Minneapolis Police Department "breach" is fake.
The above text really does question what we see on the internet since it is very easy to fabricate news and evidence like this. With that being disproved, we should take such news on social media with a grain of salt until the full evidence from each side and analysis is available.
Once we do that we will be less susceptible to being deceived unlike the retweeter at the bottom of the blog post.
My heuristics is, By default, Anything controversial I see on the internet is fake until it's proven to be true. I've been advocating this to my parents and a few others for quite a while. Especially from a country like India where there are people being lynched and killed just based on WhatsApp videos (mostly fake), Skepticism is required more than ever.
This rule means you have to consider almost everything as fake. Like say, a video of police brutality filmed by one person. How do you "prove" it to be non fake?
> a video of police brutality filmed by one person. How do you "prove" it to be non fake?
You might have almost answered your own question. If there are many videos shot by random bystanders in multiple angles of the event, even if one is fabricated, another video can disprove it; making it harder to fake the event.
This would mean that one would have to 'fake' all the videos and angles from other people which is difficult to do, especially if it is live. So with that, it can be proved to 'have happened' but only if the bystanders are un-related to each other. Otherwise it will look 'staged'.
> But anger shouldn't mean throwing logic and reason out the window and I cannot think of a time where fact-checking has ever been more important than now, not just because of the Minneapolis situation, but because so much of what we see online simply can't be trusted. So by all means, be angry, but don't spread disinformation and right now all signs point to just that - the alleged Minneapolis Police Department "breach" is fake.
The above text really does question what we see on the internet since it is very easy to fabricate news and evidence like this. With that being disproved, we should take such news on social media with a grain of salt until the full evidence from each side and analysis is available.
Once we do that we will be less susceptible to being deceived unlike the retweeter at the bottom of the blog post.
[0] https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1267237884949483522