Listen "Creation, Maintenance, and Ethics of Sock Puppet Accounts (Online Personas)"
Episode Synopsis
Episode 35 of the podcast covers the creation, maintenance, and ethics of sock puppet accounts (online personas) and how enterprise can use them to solve numerous business problems. Question 1: (01:35) What are best practices for growing your connections, follows, or friends on sock puppets accounts? Question 2: (04:10) With the widespread tracking and analytics conducted by social media companies, how do you prevent cross contamination on your sock puppets from your legitimate social media? Question 3: (06:00) What are some appropriate operational security measures that are important in creating sock puppets to ensure they are backstopped? Question 4: (10:02) What are some ethical and legal considerations to consider when creating sock puppets? Can/should you ever use a real persons photos? How do you source pictures for a sock puppet to stay consistent? Question 5: (12:58) What are some good investigative use cases for using sock puppets? What is a reasonable time frame to have a sock puppet before one would consider it "aged"?
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