Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (Daily Mail)

[LateX'Dog]

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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1w1SkH6gY

First off its the Daily Mail, but hey its a good thing i don't use social media.

 

[Deep]

Ok pork

 

[bsoltan]

Why is it a good thing you don't use social media?

This isn't even an interesting story.

The authorities look for key words in public that might lead to a potential threat.

Big whoop.

 

[Edrof]

Well there goes my Mexican pork cloud Kickstarter project.

 

[momentimori]

Isn't it funny how America acknowledges the existence of Echelon, and lists a load of trigger words, whereas Britain does not.

 

[PapaLazaru]

attack Al Qaeda terrorism dirty bomb pork cloud team Mexico

You said it.

 

[The Running Man]

Can I say Jaeger bom6 without going on the list?

And like football £eam?

 

[bitslice]

Surprised "OcUK" isn't on the list, we talk more about the Muslims than the UN

 

[simpletom]

So what happens when I type "I am going to team pork the queen"?

 

[kwerk]

Seems like a total waste of time/money because terrorists will obviously be typing in ARABIC not ENGLISH.

Idiots.

 

[piggeh]

durka durka mohamed jihad.

pork bomb queen al qaea jihad jiha durka durk.

Damn, foiled.

 

[MaximusV]

How many times do I have to type bomb before a swat team appears?

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Four random news stories on the front page. Thanks LatexDog.

 

[bitslice]

Seems like a total waste of time/money because terrorists will obviously be typing in ARABIC not ENGLISH.

Left To Right Written But English Just Is Arabic


Simples.

 

[setter]

I read mein kamf once, (a supposed flagged book in librarys) bit rubbish tbh. The delusional ravings and rhetoric from a such an insignifigant ww1 corporal, yet he turned out to define the 20th century in such a disturbing way.