Comments on: Are denial-of-insight attacks a threat to search logs and/or VOTC/VOTM apps? http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/11/12/denial-of-insight-attacks/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:45:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curt Monash http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/11/12/denial-of-insight-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-53977 Curt Monash Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:44:30 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=295#comment-53977 Whit, I'm missing something here. What exactly are you suggesting for #1 and #2. And is #3 anything more than "Fake opinions spread to promote a product are ... well, they're fake opinions out there to be detected in general." Whit,

I’m missing something here. What exactly are you suggesting for #1 and #2. And is #3 anything more than “Fake opinions spread to promote a product are … well, they’re fake opinions out there to be detected in general.”

]]> By: Whit Andrews http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/11/12/denial-of-insight-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-53917 Whit Andrews Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:58:31 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=295#comment-53917 It's comparatively unlikely to see pure malice as a likely development here. But on the other hand, consider the following scenarios: 1. Easy Money. Click fraud has proved real, as has vigorous SEO. Why not have this follow the same path? 2. Activism. SEO has been effectively exploited by activists to generate promotion for themselves by piggybacking their interests on those of "opponents" or targets. 3. Simple zero-sum games. Why not push my own product? And if that causes damage to someone else's, well -- these things happen, right? Scenarios for the Hostile Information Ecosystem are, I regret, all too real. It’s comparatively unlikely to see pure malice as a likely development here. But on the other hand, consider the following scenarios:

1. Easy Money. Click fraud has proved real, as has vigorous SEO. Why not have this follow the same path?

2. Activism. SEO has been effectively exploited by activists to generate promotion for themselves by piggybacking their interests on those of “opponents” or targets.

3. Simple zero-sum games. Why not push my own product? And if that causes damage to someone else’s, well — these things happen, right?

Scenarios for the Hostile Information Ecosystem are, I regret, all too real.

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