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SUMMARY:COVID 1984_ Propaganda and Surveillance during a Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Title: COVID 1984_ Propaganda and Surveillance during a Pandemi
 c\n\nDescription:\nWhat does a propaganda apparatus look like from the ins
 ide? How do groups dedicated to setting trends and censoring the oppositio
 n act? What if your government forces you to install an app that tracks yo
 u during the pandemic? What if we infiltrate a sock puppet account to unde
 rstand all this better?\n\nThe official political propaganda and digital s
 urveillance in Argentina are not new. However\, in the last fifteen years\
 , both phenomena have adopted in their favor a new technological approach 
 worthy of study\, with the emergence of companies dedicated to manufacturi
 ng online trends\; cyber militancy groups aimed at setting up debates\, re
 sponding to them or denouncing rival trends in a coordinated way\; the pro
 ject to establish an exclusive social network for pro-government and “ag
 ainst the establishment” militants (sponsored by the Government itself)\
 ; the rise of state digital surveillance after the implementation of a Cyb
 er ​​Patrol Protocol\, and the permanent monitoring of citizens throug
 h a mandatory mobile government application during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
 This work aims not only to review the previous events\, but also to detail
  the two greatest milestones of political propaganda and digital surveilla
 nce in Argentina today: the political propaganda apparatus on social netwo
 rks and the digital privacy abuses caused by the government application CU
 IDAR-COVID19 (ar.gob.coronavirus).\n\nFor the first case\, a fictitious ac
 count (sock puppet) will be infiltrated within the propaganda apparatus on
  social networks to achieve a detailed technical dissection of its entire 
 operation (including its interventions and actors). Our own cyber intellig
 ence tool\, Venator.lua\, will be used to obtain and process data. The fol
 lowing section will be devoted to the study of privacy abuses caused by th
 e mandatory government application CUIDAR-COVID19\, reverse engineering it
  and analyzing its source code.\n\nSpeaker(s): Mauro Cáseres\n\nLocation:
  Recon Vlg\n\nDiscord: https://discord.com/channels/708208267699945503/732
 733566051418193\n\nEvent starts: 2020-08-08 14:00 (02:00 PM) PDT (UTC -07:
 00)\n\nEvent ends: 2020-08-08 14:30 (02:30 PM) PDT (UTC -07:00)\n\nFor the
  most up-to-date information\, please either visit https://info.defcon.org
 \, or use HackerTracker\, which is available for iOS and Android. This is 
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URL:https://forum.defcon.org/node/234608
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LOCATION:Recon Vlg
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