but he suggested that instead of using it to push just one message, we could
have created a dialog. If we had the bots responding to one another and
mimicking opposite views, we could have robbed the government from
directing the narrative.
I HOPE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING
Wreaking havoc on Adversaria was a lot of fun, but the point was to learn
something about the nature of these attacks. Curry says the election war-game
series has brought up some novel approaches. One Red Team took control of
the city’s sewer; creating sewage backups at polling places like schools could
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Team was arrested (in the game).
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created a secret back-channel communications system, so it could always get
reliable information out.