Workshop: How to Befriend and Bedazzle Online Threat Actors with Tim Pappa

Introduction

• Why are you interested in communicating with online threat actors?
• Why is it important to develop a contact and communications strategy for online engagement with online threat actors?

Common pitfalls of online communication with online threat actors

Influence and persuasion techniques

Exercise: Influence and persuasion online

Pre-suasion before influence and persuasion

• Making an online threat actor more responsive to communication before the communication
• Getting their attention and holding their attention

Building behaviorally based relationships online

• Self-disclosure and vulnerability
• Introducing affect into relationship building

Integrating content or “rich media” sharing to develop and maintain relationships

Introducing a framework for designing authentic sock puppets

Exercise: A framework for designing sock puppets and making you appear more authentic

Let’s model this

Scenario exercise: Befriending online threat actors

Scenario exercise: Bedazzling online threat actors