Daily Mail: American Stasi to Mine Social Media for Keywords

Mike · Dec 28, 2011

Daily Mail: Tweeting the word 'drill' could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies

According to the Daily Mail, our Department of Homeland Security (aka Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, or Stasi for short) is searching blogs, forums, twitter feeds, etc., for certain keywords, identifying the poeple usings those keywords & recording personal information about them. It's not clear where that personal information is coming from -- are they serving warrants on ISP's to identify users?

Sample keywords & phrases: illegal immigrant, human to animal, strain, drill, outbreak, virus, deaths, recovery, virus, trojan, collapse.

No surprise: An FOIA request from EPIC was ignored.

Anyone got a random sentence generator?

Lisa Simeone · Dec 29, 2011

Anyone got a random sentence generator?
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I believe it's already been tackled (thanks to the ever-resourceful Nigerians!). See this thread:
http://www.travelunderground.org/index.php?threads/letter-from-janet-napolitano.1815/#post-19197

Mike · Dec 29, 2011

Lisa Simeone said: ↑

Possible explanation for some of it:

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Tweeting the word 'virus' could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies --Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland Security, says privacy group --List of keywords flags 'danger' signal --DHS may attempt to identify users from their accounts --Keywords include 'virus' and 'drill' 28 Dec 2011 The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive' words - and tracking people who use them. Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS's 'watch' list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group. The words which attract attention range from ones seemingly related to diseases or bioweapons such as 'human to animal' and 'outbreak' to other, more obscure words such as 'drill' and 'strain'. [USociopaths don't want us talking about their lab-generated pandemics.]

DHS Creates Accounts Solely to Monitor Social Networks --Several countries and cities are also flagged as key words. 28 Dec 2011 An online privacy group is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accusing it of not releasing records from the agency's covert surveillance of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. The DHS creates accounts solely to monitor social media sites and establish a system of records of the information gathered. The agency scans social media sites for a list of words that include "dirty bomb," "hostage," "exercise," "task force," "explosion," "lockdown," "riot," "nuclear threat," "brown out," "meth lab," "cain and abel" and "brute forcing." [Speaking of which, here are a few recent log entries, detailing dhs.gov visits to the CLG website: cbcp4.dhs.gov 1 9 81.14 KB 12 Dec 2011 - 15:18, sbcp2.dhs.gov 1 9 140.23 KB 12 Dec 2011 - 16:52, sbcp2.dhs.gov 2 11 197.91 KB 22 Dec 2011 - 14:34, cbcp4.dhs.gov 3 12 111.45 KB 27 Dec 2011 - 18:54.]

US spies could be tracking you on Twitter 28 Dec 2011 The US department of homeland security reportedly makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles in a bid to track down people who use "sensitive" words. If anyone uses a word or phrase from the department's list, American spies might read the posts, investigate the online account and even attempt to identify the person from it, the Daily Mail reported. Some words which reportedly attract attention are outbreak, drill, strain, illegal immigrant, virus, recovery, deaths, collapse and trojan, according to a report filed by a private group -- the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.

[Coached by Mike -- changed formatting to use INDENT instead of QUOTE so I can quote the entire post elsewhere.]
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Frank · Jan 2, 2012

TOR client, BitCoin, Black Market.

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