<div dir="ltr"><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here's my preliminary list of potential reasons for faking a GCHQ slide. Not meant to be comprehensive, and not every possibility is highly likely. Some are included only for completeness, but I'm sure there are possibilities I missed. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">There have been a few incidents already where the slides have been challenged or at least partially debunked. The German prosecutor found a lack of evidence that the NSA was illegally monitoring their government and concluded that the alleged NSA order was a fake. Snowden has also accused The Independent of attributing slides to him that he never gave to them.</span></font></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">The why depends on the who. Candidates include:</span></font></pre><pre style=""><ul style=""><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">GCHQ</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Snowden (included for completeness, but least likely. Why fake this particular slide among many apparently legitimate ones?)</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Russian chekist agencies</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Chinese intelligence agencies</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">The Intercept</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Intel service X</span></font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal"><br></span></font></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If the GCHQ, then there are a few possible reasons:</span></font></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Part of a proposal/demo</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Disinfo to discourage visitors from going to Cryptome</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Disinfo to create paranoia</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Disinfo to discredit other slides (Snowden suggests something like that here <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-government-independent-military-base">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-government-independent-military-base</a> )</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Disinfo to convince a FIS (foreign intel service) that their capabilities are better/more complete than they are (or were better than they were at the time)</span></font></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If Snowden: </span></font></div></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">???</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Makes no sense as an isolated incident, little evidence to the contrary</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Would not necessarily recognize a fake slide, since he didn't examine all of the ones he passed on</span></font></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If Russian disinfo:</span></font></div></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Discredit the GCHQ</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Discredit western governments and undermine their intelligence agencies</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Inflate the importance of Cryptome prior to attempting to use them to release disinfo</span></font></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If Chinese disinfo:</span></font></div></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Smear British cyber operations as part of their ongoing cyberwar with the west and related cognitive warfare</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Discredit the GCHQ</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Discredit western governments and undermine their intelligence agencies</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Inflate the importance of Cryptome prior to attempting to use them to release disinfo</span></font></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If The Intercept:</span></font></div></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Fame</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Money from being paid to publish a fake by any interested party</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Financial compensation from media attention as suggested by Razer/<a href="mailto:Rayzer@riseup.net">Rayzer@riseup.net</a> </span></font></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">If Intel service x: </span></font></div></div><div><ol><li><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><span style="white-space:normal">Any of the above</span></font></li></ol></div></pre><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;white-space:normal">Juan</b><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;white-space:normal"> </span><a href="mailto:juan.g71%40gmail.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Why%20cryptome%20sold%20web%20logs%20to%20their%20paying%20customers%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C5619825d.361f8c0a.691ce.fffffe96%40mx.google.com%3E" title="Why cryptome sold web logs to their paying customers?" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;white-space:normal">juan.g71@gmail.com <br></a><i style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;white-space:normal">Sat Oct 10 17:31:29 EDT 2015<br></i>><i>I still don't get who would make such a fake and why. 
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