Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government sp

[40AmpstoFreedom]

Alright so awhile ago I had spoken about a device I read about when doing a project for an Accounting class that involved going through a companies annual report and prospectus of our choosing and I happened to randomly pick a defense firm. While reading of their outlook they spoke about a device they were working on that analyzed the entire internet as well as one that did phone communications in which certain words spoken or typed over the internet that were red flag words would be picked up by this device and spying would ensue by our spy agencies. Say you typed b0mb or t3rror1st except spelled correctly (although I am sure the algorithm is technical enough to pick up many forms) it would pick it up and they would do what they do. The company was Northrop Grumman. This is also probably what is part of the CIA and NSA department in the NE that all it does is collect and record data from all facebook, myspace, email, etc transmissions. Also a new huge data center being built in the midwest...you can find more info about those by doing some simple google searches.

So I found this just browsing the news this morning and it appears it was a very successful adventure. Follow the link for all the words they use...well supposedly all...I am sure they have some sort of drug related ones as well or eventually:

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')

Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request
Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

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As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.

The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.

In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.

They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters.'

A senior Homeland Security official told the Huffington Post that the manual 'is a starting point, not the endgame' in maintaining situational awareness of natural and man-made threats and denied that the government was monitoring signs of dissent.

However the agency admitted that the language used was vague and in need of updating.

Spokesman Matthew Chandler told website: 'To ensure clarity, as part of ... routine compliance review, DHS will review the language contained in all materials to clearly and accurately convey the parameters and intention of the program.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1wB2y17vz



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1wAyugwqK



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[Guest 88950]

fact of living in the digital age.............paranoid govts eavsdropping on everyone.

 

[40AmpstoFreedom]

Yup unfortunately. The list is so broad and a lot of the words so vague it seems they can make an excuse to search anyone just like they do with k9 searches.

By the way I have yet to find this information on any American news websites...

hmmm....

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

"The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'."

WTF?

Let's look at that again.

"... used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

So they're using this to identify media reports which don't praise the Department of Homeland Security? They're using this to troll the press?

As for my typing "pork" into my computer. These guys are overwhelmed with information overload. They've created a HUGE haystack to search through in order to find a needle or two. Then again, computers are good at doing searches. Everything that goes online is recorded and saved.

 

[40AmpstoFreedom]

Yea it seems to me we have a serious propaganda machine and not in our favor...Really deep in manipulating the news...Especially obvious since this FOIA was obviously released during memorial day weekend when everyone is busy (typical Washington DC trick) and completely hushed on all of our major news networks here in the U.S.

 

[trichrider]

crying shame...dickweeds.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

There is a bill right now in congress which will allow the Dept of Defense to conduct it's propaganda methods on United States soil.

 

[amannamedtruth]

fucking bureaucratic bullshit.

Data Mining is nothing new, though.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/government-data-mining-_b_1399384.html

 

[trichrider]

...wonder what up if everyone copied that list and included it as an attachment with every email sent...think they would revise it after a minnit?

 

[supermanlives]

i am going to mexico for some pork ,there will be a cloud of smoke surrounding my head.

 

[RetroGrow]

Also, stay away from Google:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/technology/google-privacy-inquiries-get-little-cooperation.html

 

[madalasatori]

Hey this article was in the daily mail which is a tabloid rag that no one in the uk with half a brain would wipe their arse with. They come out with scare mongering paranoid bollocks like this on a daily basis

 

[Guest 88950]

^^^^rupert murdoch must own it.

 

[40AmpstoFreedom]

Hey this article was in the daily mail which is a tabloid rag that no one in the uk with half a brain would wipe their arse with. They come out with scare mongering paranoid bollocks like this on a daily basis

You know I try to read foreign news as well as U.S. and I thought this was from the telegraph which I thought was sort of like the guardian and legitimate news? I must have followed a link there somehow. I read BBC too and it seems more like our NPR let me know if Telegraph or Guardian is bunk too. I can't find any info on any other sites but it has been public they have been doing what is written about in the article for many years now with NSA and CIA. I do want to verify now somewhere else thanks for info.

 

[Iron_Lion]

I read about this yesterday. Gonna have to start using the word "varieties".

 

[madalasatori]

Telegraph and bbc are reliable sources, guardian is too but it has a left wing agenda.

 

[joesilver]

Isn't this why we have proxies though? Let them datamine an offshore sever hope it causes more problem for them.

 

[bentom187]

the false flag to start programs like cispa ,has begun.[YOUTUBEIF]p6l3lbkP5s0[/YOUTUBEIF]

 

[greenmatter]

the thought police are coming to the "land of the free" ........

 

[Midnite Toker]

Sounds like a great gig for ol' George Carlin.....The 100 words you cant use on the internet. "and Pork and Cloud don't even belong on the list!!!!"~mT