Friday 1st September 2023

Topics:

• This week I wrote a blog on why we should all be weary of group dynamics: https://techleader.pro/a/607-Beware-of-group-dynamics
• In this podcast, I want to expand on that and look specifically at techniques that can be used to exploit groups.
• Groups are exploitable, and moving a group as a unit is easier than moving individuals one-by-one.
• Strong group cohesion makes it easier to manipulate.
• Turning from the inside versus turning from the outside:
  • Inside: other insiders are more likely to listen, their guards are down.
  • Outside: criticize the group to put it into a defensive mode, provoke reactions to the desired topics.
• Turning the head versus turning the feet:
  • Head: identify and influence leaders.
  • Feet: decouple them from group direction, if enough follow so will the leaders.
• Chaos monkey mode.
• This is social engineering.
• Groups are weaker than we think.
• What I am working on this week:
  • Making Apache Nutch run as a service on Linux.
  • Nutch woes in general: performance is poor, distributing processing via Hadoop is complicated, and that is not even documented in Nutch 2.x.
• Media I am enjoying this week:
  • Foundation season 2.

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Title music is "Come 2gether" by Ooyy, licensed via www.epidemicsound.com

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