Posted on 11/24/2004 10:11:04 PM PST by 26lemoncharlie
As part of the effort to keep America secure from future acts of violence, the U.S. is looking at monitoring Internet chat rooms to identify potential terrorists.
According to CNET News.com, the CIA is quietly funding research into surveillance of online discussion halls.
In April 2003, the intelligence agency reportedly agreed to finance a series of research projects that newly disclosed government documents indicate were intended to create "new capabilities to combat terrorism through advanced technology."
One of the projects at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., centers on profiling the behavior of those who talk in chat rooms.
The money is said to come from the National Science Foundation, but the CIA was part of the process for choosing which parties would receive the research grants.
It's unclear, though, how far into the future the CIA will continue its relationship, as an official said the two-year agreement was unlikely to be renewed for the 2005 fiscal year.
"Probably we won't be working with the CIA anymore at all," NSF program director Leland Jameson told CNET. "I think that people have moved on to other things."
The disclosure of the CIA's involvement is raising the eyebrows of some privacy advocates.
"The intelligence community is changing the priorities of scientific research in the U.S.," Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, told CNET. "You have to be careful that the National Science Foundation doesn't become the National Spy Foundation."
But Al Teich, director of science and policy programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said he doesn't have a problem with the CIA's financing of research on terrorism in general.
"I don't know about chat-room surveillance, but doing research on issues related to terrorism is certainly legitimate," Teich said. "Whether the CIA ought to be funding research in universities in a clandestine manner is a different issue."
Guess that article got everyone paranoid..
( Are we being "surveilled" ? )
There is no way to monitor every chat room, me and you could launch programs and start a temporary chat room between us. Chat rooms are ephemeral
I am not sure if we are being watched or not. I look at the Dutch and I don't like what I see or what I hear that's going on over their. This Hate Crime Speech is a supression of our Freedom of Speech.
It always has been, you hear the same Crap in Holland and England, Hate Crime speec, Hate Crime Speech. So if you criticize what your government is doing in Holland it is a HATE CRIME!! Is this what the Dems had in mind for here, is this what the US Gov has in mind?? Big Trouble in Flyover America country!! Scary Huh??!!
Is that known as a DCC connection?
I am not sure. I don't think I've ever used it
Kubark calling. Magic Lanterns are in the upper Echelons of Carnivores PING. :-)
Lets hope it does not happen here
DCC for Direct Computer to Computer is used on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and it bypasses the IRC servers you and the other party are connected to.
I haven't used IRC in about six years now. Used to run a very popular channel in Undernet.
I guess so. I think there are others too, probably runs on the same principle
Looking for potential terrorists in Internet chat rooms? EASY!!
Just go monitor Democrat Underground. Almost anyone of the raving, psychotic, vile anti-American participants on that site scare the living beJesus out of me, and their hatred of the United States is awesome. They strike me as potential terrorists one and all!
Don't worry...No terrorist in their "right" mind would come here.....
Agreed...but, can you imagine what it would be like if Kerry had managed to pull off a coup?
The term "terrorist" has been redefined in the last few years. I'm sure I have the fbi version of it around here somewhere. A search from post through the months following 9/11 should produce it. Leave it to say, don't be so sure many here wouldn't be textbook examples. Blackbird.
It doesn't bother me, I have nothing to hide neither do most people who frequent free republic, I do suppose it's going to cramp the style of some over at democratic underground.
Thats why it is always best to wear clean underwear and a bathrobe just in case.......
I don't think you'll find many here meeting the FBI definition "terrorist," but you'll sure find lots of us fitting the definition, "kook burger."
That way it's harder for others to listen in on conversations or if there are splits in the servers, you can keep a conversation going even if you and the other person are on opposite sides of the split or even if you are both knocked off servers due to splits or DoS attacks that take one or more servers down.
Well, I would say that everyone on FreeRepublic (excepting the trolls who get banned rather quickly) LOVES AMERICA~ and could never be considered an anti-American terrorist~
We are true patriots. We love our mother, our president, our country, our Constitution, apple pie, etc. Cheesecake, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, steak,YUM..
I forgot what the subject was.... LOL
EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT TURKEY DAY~
http://www.paracel.com (And that's the obsolete technology.)
Any doubt?
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