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Text and images are classic ways to do deception because they seem more permanent and believable than direct human interaction. We will call deception in constructed text and media “fakes”. Fake documents and images have played important roles in history. “Operation Mincemeat” of World War II planted fake documents, including things like letters from home and theater tickets as well as some official letters, all suggesting that the British were planning to invade southern Europe rather than Normandy, and the deceptions were effective (Latimer 2003). Fake documents are also important for counterintelligence; if one makes the false information distinctive, it is easy to tell if an adversary has used it.
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Rowe, N.C., Rrushi, J. (2016). Fakes. In: Introduction to Cyberdeception. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41187-3_7
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