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Tweeting the word 'drill' could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies
Daily Mail ^ | 12/28/11 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 12/28/2011 8:43:00 AM PST by Nachum

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, acccording to an online privacy group. [Snip] The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan', according to an 'impact asssessment' document filed

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: device; drill; improvised; thermonuclear; tm; tweeting; twitter; word
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To: King_Corey

And kudos to anyone who fit all THAT into a single sentence!


41 posted on 12/28/2011 10:46:11 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Lobbyist

Instructions for filing
a FOIA or PA request are available at: http://www.dhs.gov/xfoia/editorial_0316.shtm.

Who knows if they’ll actually follow through.

See page 10 of this doc (link included in another part of this thread):

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/images/blogimages/2011/12/27/1325032839-privacy_pia_ops_publiclyavailablesocialmedia_update.pdf


42 posted on 12/28/2011 10:47:46 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Nachum

‘human to animal’ is the one that I can’t figure out.


43 posted on 12/28/2011 10:59:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: usconservative
BTW: Does anyone else remember "Crash Echelon" day back in 1997'ish? That was the day millions of us copied and pasted some 200+ words at the end of each email to make Echelon scan them. "Allegedly" the effort brought the system down for a day or two -- but who really knew.

Yup. I took part. I figured since I was already on several choice lists, one more wouldn't hurt me any.

44 posted on 12/28/2011 10:59:47 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: King_Corey

What the heck are “mexicles”?

I guess I am being investigated, I mentioned going to Target on Facebook last week...


45 posted on 12/28/2011 11:03:50 AM PST by Cailleach
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To: Nachum

I had better not use the words ‘illegal immigrant’, ‘outbreak’, ‘drill’, ‘strain’, ‘virus’, ‘recovery’, ‘deaths’, ‘collapse’, ‘human to animal’ and ‘trojan’ anymore.


46 posted on 12/28/2011 11:10:11 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ('illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'huma)
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To: Salamander; shibumi
***Armageddon***!

Yes. Most of the words apply. You must be a an expert at word association games. LOL

47 posted on 12/28/2011 11:11:00 AM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: Nachum

I think that we can all take inspiration from the late, great George Carlin, who used to answer his phone as follows: “Phuk Hoover...Hello?”

So in addition to using any of the target phrases, we can also jam up the snoops who listen in on our phone calls. Phuk Obama...Hello? Phuk Napolitano [Eeeewwww]...Hello?


48 posted on 12/28/2011 11:39:16 AM PST by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: Nachum

Heck, you don’t need to write a sentence that has all those words, you just need to have the words in a post.

Like:

Bomb
Jihad
Allah
America
Death
Jews
Kill
President
Child
Obama
Militia
Gun
Anthrax
Smallpox
Rictin
Plutonium

There you go, if there is anything out there auto-sniffing through the web for buzzwords, then this post is a like a H-bomb to a match in potential.


49 posted on 12/28/2011 11:48:27 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Nachum

Dude, you are in sooooooo much trouble and you don’t even know it.

Expect a wakeup call, oh, about 2:00 a.m. with DHS, FBI, local Sherrif’s department who are going to shoot your dog first, ransack your house, stick a gun to your children’s, your wife’s, and your head, with each department conducting their own strip search with rubber gloves, take your computer and any other possible incriminating evidence, seize your guns, car and other valuable property, freeze your bank account(s), put a lien on your house, and proceed to tell the media that you are a ‘suspected’ terrorist.

Doesn’t make you feel safe and free?


50 posted on 12/28/2011 1:11:52 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

‘Expect a wakeup call, oh, about 2:00 a.m.’

Ah, kind of gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling.


51 posted on 12/28/2011 2:03:40 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Novel strain variola hybrid synthesis gene sequenced immunity refrigerated payload.


52 posted on 12/28/2011 2:15:15 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: musicman
Drill Baby Drill


53 posted on 12/28/2011 2:27:56 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Nachum

My question - is why do we read this stuff from foreign sources, not our own? (I know the answer, just pointing it out.)


54 posted on 12/28/2011 3:13:14 PM PST by A. Patriot (Have we lost our Republic? Do the majority of Americans care?)
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To: Nachum

Because it lets you know they care!


55 posted on 12/28/2011 3:47:43 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Walrus

On the upside, it won’t make my usual correspondences any more bizarre than they already are.

:)

[but I don’t know how to “tweet”]


56 posted on 12/28/2011 5:01:50 PM PST by Salamander (I'm your pain.....)
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To: 50mm

Dreadfully so, I’m afraid.

[and I do mean “dreadful”]

;D


57 posted on 12/28/2011 5:12:40 PM PST by Salamander (I'm your pain.....)
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To: cynwoody

Thanks for the link!!


58 posted on 12/28/2011 5:12:44 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: donmeaker

Based upon the information supplied I find this *very* difficult to believe.


59 posted on 12/28/2011 6:35:23 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Salamander
but I don’t know how to “tweet”

Eat a good helping of beans or cabbage. Nature takes care of the rest.

60 posted on 12/28/2011 8:26:39 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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