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CIA Spying on Social Media, Blogs, Forums

They're not really traffickers, but the lowest, filthiest jokers of all time. Some may be, idrk. Visit 4chan you might see some. And then immediately vomit, or have a psychotic fit.
 
Thanks for the heads up.

As for CIA "spying", scrolling through public forums for terrorists is one thing. Identifying each and every American for speaking against the government is another. I'm for the former and against the latter which is why I was against many parts of the Patriot Act since it violates Ben Franklin's famous quote:

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Nice, Nice.

I dont think it's about loyalty to the government, but the potential to have power over 'individuals of interest', of any persuasion you may muster.
 
In case you thought you were anonymous on these forums, or that your thoughts were not being monitored by the government, you are wrong.


"In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media."

"Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn't touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what's being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords."

CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media Boing Boing

What would you think about our Security and Intelligence services if someone were able to pull of a horrible terrorist incident and it turns out the cat had been posting his intentions all over the net and no one was looking.

Would you feel confident in their ability to protect you?
 
wait, so you drunk post publically on the facebook, and you think if the CIA sees it it's "spying"? :lol:
 
What would you think about our Security and Intelligence services if someone were able to pull of a horrible terrorist incident and it turns out the cat had been posting his intentions all over the net and no one was looking.

Would you feel confident in their ability to protect you?

I don't feel all that confident in the government to do the right thing. How do you know you don't have a bunch of horny IT guys just looking at young girls all day. Since they can spy on facebook how do you know they are not just looking at the pics of girls they find attractive? Or how do you know that they are not viewing porn that they find interesting and normally would not pay so that is why they are viewing? Do you get?
 
I don't feel all that confident in the government to do the right thing. How do you know you don't have a bunch of horny IT guys just looking at young girls all day. Since they can spy on facebook how do you know they are not just looking at the pics of girls they find attractive? Or how do you know that they are not viewing porn that they find interesting and normally would not pay so that is why they are viewing? Do you get?

Short answer: I am familiar with open source reporting. I know what they do.
 
Nice, Nice.

I dont think it's about loyalty to the government, but the potential to have power over 'individuals of interest', of any persuasion you may muster.

Potential is different from actual or reality. I'm a member of the NRA and solid supporter of the Second Amendment. This doesn't mean I check my brain at the door when considering things like a requirement that anyone buying a gun be of sound mind or that anyone who has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as being likely to commit suicide or homocide should be barred from buying guns until their situation is resolved.

Same goes for the CIA or any law enforcement agency scrolling through public forums. Nothing wrong there. Tracking down someone just because they called the President or their Congressman an idiot would be a problem. That's why we should be vigilant about passing laws like the Patriot Act and be sufficiently active with our Congressional representatives to ensure they preserve our rights under the Constitution of the United States of America.
 
say, for example, we had an IP in afghanistan tied to ayman zawahiri (2nd in command of Al-Qaeda, their Ops guy); and we knew that in the past he had used the phrase "may you shine like the flowers of the field" as the order to launch an attack in western europe. now let us say that you begin to join the same networks as this particular IP, and one day you send another poster the simple message "may you shine like the flowers of the field". the filter has been set to pick up on that phrase, and now (hopefully) someone is very interested in confirming who you are and exactly what you mean by that.




i'm sorry, I just don't buy that. Terrorists in the desert don't have time to log in and screw around with nonsense. I really believe that reports of so and so Islamic website is a snare. Theres more backround to it if you want to discuss Facebook. The New Yorker article on Zuckerman spying on his classmates emails and so forth with the software and his current projects and backdoors with other companies. Facebook is a whole another issue, it was created to spy. And some people invested in it for that reason. I'm talking about deliberately targeting people on websites. Like Centcom recently admitting they "correct people" online at blogs, forums etc.

The Face of Facebook

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up : The New Yorker

Raw obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers

The Raw Story | Raw obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers

CENTCOM Creates "Blog Team" To Scan Blogs

Daily Kos: CENTCOM Creates "Blog Team" To Scan Blogs
 
Always wondered where those 'friends' came from that I never knew or added myself. :p
 
In case you thought you were anonymous on these forums, or that your thoughts were not being monitored by the government, you are wrong.


"In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media."

"Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn't touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what's being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords."

CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media Boing Boing

Here's the way I see it:

1) This is a public forum. As such, the CIA has the right of a guest, just as anybody else. If they want to spy on me, I say "have at it".

2) However, this is not the same as spying on your cellphone conversations. But I have a solution for this too. When you are on your cell phone, use trigger words. Here are some examples:

When talking to your wife: "Honey, you are the bomb".

At a baseball game: "Damn, the Astros totally assassinated the Cubs today".

At the supermarket: "Sorry, honey. I'm not getting any beans. They make my ass explode".

When you're sick: "Can't come into work today. I'm doing a jihad on this flu I have".

Get the picture? It's called "****ing with the government for ****s and giggles". :mrgreen: But you are also sending a message that what you say on your cell phone, what you read at a library, and what you send in an email are none of the government's mother****ing business. If they really suspect you of something, then they had better damn well get a mother****ing warrant.
 
i'm sorry, I just don't buy that. Terrorists in the desert don't have time to log in and screw around with nonsense

then you aren't reading what i'm writing, and you have no idea whatsoever about the long-term strategic goals of Islamist terror networks.

1. we're not talking about "nonsense", we are talking about organization and communication; what we call C2 (command and control). the US military does the same thing, organizing over the internet in order to pursue joint goals; except that we use our own, seperate lines. Al-Qaeda and like groups do not have the institutional capacity to support this kind of network, and so they rely on the world wide web.

2. not all terrorists are "in the desert". it's not like they're living in a secret terrorist camp in an oasis out there somewhere plotting their next move; they are far more fluid than that. terror networks live in cities, in mountains, on ships, so on and so forth.

3. in fact, a solid argument could be made that AQ's central branch now spends more of its' resources on the non-kinetic 4th Gen internet-based fight than it does on the actual "shooting and/or blowing up people" fight.

4. connectivity isn't as difficult as you seem to imagine. and for the higher functioning branches of AQ-etc, it has become a necessity due to the fact that they are aware that we can track their cell phones. it's the only safe means of communication left to them.

I really believe that reports of so and so Islamic website is a snare

then you are 100% wrong :)
 
Here's the way I see it:

1) This is a public forum. As such, the CIA has the right of a guest, just as anybody else. If they want to spy on me, I say "have at it".

2) However, this is not the same as spying on your cellphone conversations. But I have a solution for this too. When you are on your cell phone, use trigger words. Here are some examples:

When talking to your wife: "Honey, you are the bomb".

At a baseball game: "Damn, the Astros totally assassinated the Cubs today".

At the supermarket: "Sorry, honey. I'm not getting any beans. They make my ass explode".

When you're sick: "Can't come into work today. I'm doing a jihad on this flu I have".

Get the picture? It's called "****ing with the government for ****s and giggles". :mrgreen: But you are also sending a message that what you say on your cell phone, what you read at a library, and what you send in an email are none of the government's mother****ing business. If they really suspect you of something, then they had better damn well get a mother****ing warrant.

:) cute, but those aren't exactly the key phrases they are looking for.
 
Yeah... you don't want them to mistake you for a terr-o. Better not to try.
 
Republican are always talking about liberty, but do nothing when the government is illegally caught spying, wiretapping, disrupting protests with police provacateurs,
and clamping down on free speech by censoring and distorting all the media channels.

Ron Paul, the most popular Republican, was himself the victim of a Fox News smear campaign.

What does that tell you?
 
In case you thought you were anonymous on these forums, or that your thoughts were not being monitored by the government, you are wrong.

I'm more worried about Comcast than the CIA.
 
Even in Democracies man will never truly be free.
 
I'm more worried about Comcast than the CIA.

eh. i'm worried about Google. when the day comes that our every action is monitored and we have no privacy, it won't be because some government bureacrat wants to spy on us; it will be because some company wants to sell us something.
 
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