16 JUL 2013 by ideonexus
Seeding Untruths as an Act of Rebellion
Conceding that the battle to stop documentation of people’s private details and lives was a lost one, the Decepticons have taken a different approach: make this data unreliable. Decepticon hackers work hard to penetrate mesh databases and seed false information. They have released numerous worms and trojans into the wild with the sole purposes of gaining access to archives, selecting random entries, and replacing the data with autogenerated material (similar enough to pass, but false). Some...As a protest against sousiveillance, some hackers turn to filling the Web with false data to make all data unreliable.