Posted on 05/29/2012 6:24:44 AM PDT by grumpa
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 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.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1wGTTvw4t
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
One of the words on the list is “Pirates”. In reference to Somalia I guess.
There must be an awful lot of NSA employees camping out on Pittsburgh baseball fan sites all day. Clint Barmes and his .168 average definitely a subject for taxpayer resources. /sarc
I’ve read that there were so many people monitoring phone calls in Russia (during the cold war) that there wasn’t enough power for the actual call itself.
One of the words they watch for is ‘homegrown’
I was emailing a friend about my homegrown tomatoes and thought, wouldnt this be a shocker if I get a call or visit from the US Govt because I was discussing homegrown tomatoes...
I hear ya’ brother !
Did I miss Freerepublic, FReeper and FRiend? Never mind, they have special agents just for FR.
I grow homegrown tomatoes using nitrogen fertilizer and I’ll tell ya, it’s da bomb. Shoot, I’ll bet even that sourpuss Obama would like how they taste.
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How about followers of the movie series “Pirates of the Carribean”? Would they have to fear for their Internet freedom?
I’m gonna start making sure everything I do on the internet has one of these words. Vaccine.
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