REVEALED: Hundreds Of Words To Avoid The Gov. Spying On You, Were Doomed

[twyacht]

I guess looking at the list (at link),.....we are probably considered a threat to Homeland Security by now....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html?ICO=most_read_module

snip.
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

By Daniel Miller

PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 May 2012
 Comments (174)

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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We are so doomed.....

[JLawson]

As bad as this may seem, it's nothing compared to other 'Signals Intelligence' systems that have been "watching" us for years.  Do a little googling for things like 'Echelon', 'Stellar Wind', 'Carnivore', and 'NarusInsight'.  After reading about this stuff you may decide to unplug the computer forever.

Just remember... "they" profile everyone's search behavior.   

P.S.
I mysteriously lost my Internet connection twice while trying to post this.

[JLawson]

Here's a little something to help you sleep easier tonight...

[alfsauve]

I think my tag line is going to get a lot bigger.

[Ichiban]

Just a quick scan, but I didn't see "low yield thermonuclear device" on the list.  How lacking.

[Sponsor]

[Timothy]

Just a quick scan, but I didn't see "low yield thermonuclear device" on the list.  How lacking.

It's spelled thermonucular you silly boy!

Ask anybody....

 

[santahog]

P.S.
I mysteriously lost my Internet connection twice while trying to post this.

Yup..

[tombogan03884]

It's been common knowledge for at least 30 years that the NSA records/monitors every electronic emanation on the planet.
What do you think half of those "military" satellites do ?
Echelon, Carnivore, etc, are just :search engines" that help them sort useful stuff out of all the texting, and high School girls talking about who's cute and who's a bitch, today.
The only "private" forms of communication are snail mail, (because of all the crap the CIA took in the 60's) and face to face.
NOTHING else is protected.

[alfsauve]

I think we should start using random number generators (actually a greeking generator - "greeking" being a word used when a mock-up layout for a poster or print ad is being developed for nonsensical text used to fill the spaces until the real text was written).  

Then we start sending this "encrypted" information back and forth.   If enough people did it it might drive them crazy trying to decrepit it.

[Hazcat]

We ought to start a thread where we use the words in completely innocent ways Such as;

My cat took the initiative and made an attack on and assassinated a whole nest of mice that were looting my grain stores and were a threat to my domestic security.  He did not take them hostage.  He wiped out the gangs leader first and then there were many deaths.  I was not into shooting them so no shots fired.