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From: Vincenzo lozzo < Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 11:13 AM To: Reid Hoffman; jeffrey E.; Joshua Cooper Ramo Subject: Assange on how to defeat an organization It's a good and quick read: http://cryptome.org/0002=ja-conspiracies.pdf I think all of you will li=e it. Notably: 1) thinking about power cliqu=s as a graph problem. Where to disrupt a power group you treat the problem a= "how can I either isolate, split, slow down or fabricate information flowi=g both from the outside graph to the subgraph and in between nodes in the s=bgraph" 2) Weirdly prescient practical example in t=e paper: "for example, let us consider two c=osely balanced and broadly conspiratorial power groupings, the US democrati= and republican parties. Consider what would happen if one o= these parties gave up their [communication devices]. <=div> They would immediately fall into an organizational stupor and lose=to the other" Ps: on (2), one of the rumors a=out why the coup failed in Turkey is that the military groups that were sup=osed to assassinate Erdogan had gone dark to avoid detection but as a resul= had a 30min delay on the attack which allowed Erdogan to escape. Sent from my (phone 1 EFTA_R1_01545684 EFTA02448219