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http://www.authenticscoop.com/federal-gives-up-phrases-it-uses-to-monitor-social-activity-keyword-list/

The US Federal government under a Freedom of Information Act request gave up it's list of key or flag words that it monitors social media with

My favourites? Team, wave and sick.

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Also, if you want the original source, dig through this.

Artistic Assassins is a good one...
So is Mexicles...
A lot of the infrastructure ones are a bit mundane though...

ah man I mention North Korea all the time.

Dude im popping up on that list several dozen times a day haha, its a miracle they can analyze all the data they must generate

chaos0xomega wrote:
Dude im popping up on that list several dozen times a day haha, its a miracle they can analyze all the data they must generate

It depends on how the data is catalogued. I would guess that, at the very least, individual hits are given priority according to how many items of interest are noted in a given entry. This will, right away, significantly reduce what is viewed by humans; which can further be reduced by several other methods (source, repetition over time, words per source, etc.).

chaos0xomega wrote:
Dude im popping up on that list several dozen times a day haha, its a miracle they can analyze all the data they must generate

I doubt they can.

Also, to anyone posting in this thread:

you're now on some kind of list.

So anyone studying criminal justice is hosed.

Heh, I wonder if their system filters out news websites, because they probably use all of those words every day when talking about world events.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Dude im popping up on that list several dozen times a day haha, its a miracle they can analyze all the data they must generate

I doubt they can.

Of course they can. All it takes is algorithms, CPU time, and money. Dogma already showed how it could be prioritized. Our intelligence agencies alone have 80 billion a year for just these sorts of things, and unlike Google, they have no shareholders to please and no profits to be made.

I'm glad our tax dollars are being spent on catching the few idiots who are stupid enough to talk about their terrorist plots in public and without bothering to come up with a code.

Going for the low-hanging fruit to show results at your job is human nature

 Peregrine wrote:
I'm glad our tax dollars are being spent on catching the few idiots who are stupid enough to talk about their terrorist plots in public and without bothering to come up with a code.

I know right? It's like they aren't intelligent enough to develop a complex network to hide their activities

 Ouze wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Dude im popping up on that list several dozen times a day haha, its a miracle they can analyze all the data they must generate

I doubt they can.

Of course they can. All it takes is algorithms, CPU time, and money. Dogma already showed how it could be prioritized. Our intelligence agencies alone have 80 billion a year for just these sorts of things, and unlike Google, they have no shareholders to please and no profits to be made.

Well, at least to get the list that then needs to be watched by people. Ultimately, all you can do with algorithms (especially with a problem as vast as analysing human writing styles) is get it right to a certain percentile and then let a human take over.

The odd thing to me is that surely anyone who was actually legitimately planning some sort of actual attack upon the US or one of its allies would be (assuming they were using US friendly social media sites to begin with) using some sort of code or innuendo avoiding from even saying any of these common words. A lot of these are pretty brain-dead obvious "not what you say" even without this list public. If I were going plan something, I'd probably be using IRC channels with encrypted communications from one-time pads, further encrypted by RSA. Pretty obvious that you're dealing with something intended to be secret, but it will at least make them work for it.

I feel like this list is designed to monitor people talking about events that have occurred, like people discussing the news, not people planning attacks. That's kind of unnerving on multiple levels.

The _really_ interesting thing to find out is whether this list is being applied to publicly available elements on social media websites or public AND private ones, and also what sites are actually monitored, but I doubt they'd give all that away so easily.

All I'm saying is 'exercise' is on the list,

Well, with all those new years resolutions there's going to be a lot of dissidents cropping up in January...

 daedalus wrote:


The odd thing to me is that surely anyone who was actually legitimately planning some sort of actual attack upon the US or one of its allies would be (assuming they were using US friendly social media sites to begin with) using some sort of code or innuendo avoiding from even saying any of these common words. A lot of these are pretty brain-dead obvious "not what you say" even without this list public. If I were going plan something, I'd probably be using IRC channels with encrypted communications from one-time pads, further encrypted by RSA. Pretty obvious that you're dealing with something intended to be secret, but it will at least make them work for it.

or you just hide it in plain sight

"I'm going down to the pub to grab a pint with Jimmy, want some hobnobs?" becomes "I'm meeting Akmed in the alleyway to aquire those blister agents, got enough ricin for this job, or does he need to get us more?"

Wait no "explosive diarhea" on the list? Thats a WMD if I ever heard of one.

After eating at Subway, BART and I were playing a game of 40k in which his Plague Bearers attacked my Cadian Militia on my manufactorum facility table. In the shooting phase, shots were fired at my scoring unit, resulting in many deaths. As the unit attempted to evacuate the field, the Lord Commissar assassinated the commander, forcing the recovery of their morale and prevention of their leaving the field of engagement.

He then breached my Aegis Defense Line and attacked the Lord Commissar with his toxic plague marines, but we fought at the same initiative. His plague commander killed the Lord Commissar in a challenge, but the extra wounds he dealt would not spill over into the Cadian Militia. After we both suffered the same number of deaths, the attack resulted in a standoff, and the threat to my back ranks was momentarily decapitated.

Ha. With these kind of filters I'd be lighting up a Christmas tree to their filter. It hits over a dozen words I use regularly just talking about Warmachine often in the same sentence. Nevermind once you add in RPGs & MTG.

My work emails alone must get flagged constantly. I'm pretty sure some of those words are in my signature.....

The only reason these words get picked up on is so the government employees have an excuse to browse wargaming sites on the job.

 daedalus wrote:
Pretty obvious that you're dealing with something intended to be secret, but it will at least make them work for it.

Work for the written information, which isn't all that important once the part about intended secrecy is established.

"Gas prices sure are high."

*knock on the door* THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT.

 daedalus wrote:

I feel like this list is designed to monitor people talking about events that have occurred, like people discussing the news, not people planning attacks. That's kind of unnerving on multiple levels.

The _really_ interesting thing to find out is whether this list is being applied to publicly available elements on social media websites or public AND private ones, and also what sites are actually monitored, but I doubt they'd give all that away so easily.

Considering all of the copycats that come out of the woodwork after major events, and the amateurs inspired by these events, I would say that identifying the ones discussing them in a positive manner would be relatively easy and productive. After all, if you can catch a Jihadist looking for a cell, or a fool looking for the most convincing fake anthrax to put into a letter you can intercept them before they cause any trouble. A broad search like this would serve more as damage control than a counter for a serious attack. I imagine there are separate protocols for all of the major hate sites out there and this is just the Norton antivirus of security monitoring.

Imagine all the mundane news articles that pop up...

"Dark storm clouds will be a threat to the Yuma swine market, as torrential rain continues to drill Mexico from the US Southwest border to Columbia. The boom or bust industry of agriculture seems to have gone to port and set sail in search for a better national infrastructure elsewhere. Though averting a state of emergency, the Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced today that even in the wake of numerous black outs across the nation, he could confirm that the explosive brush fires near Tijuanna no longer burned and that disaster assistance was already in place. Averting a riot over the crashing swine industry, he promised to lock down the toxic markets, exercise a swift recovery, and launch a prevention initiative that would limit strain on workers."

We should all just type all the words in this list into google repeatedly

Don't give 4-chan ideas