The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words
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The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words
By Ms. Smith on Fri, 06/25/10 - 2:05pm
DHS will monitor more U.S. citizens on the Internet, the feds may have the power to pull the plug on the Web, and certain words automatically incriminate you if used in emails. It's been a busy week, eroding away at privacy. The devil in the details of censorship.
Cyber-terrorists and the dreaded cyberwar have escalated to the point of the "feds" pulling the plug on the Internet in case of an emergency. Then DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that in the future there will be "increased" Internet monitoring of U.S. citizens due to the dangers of homegrown terrorism. Napolitano remarked on how "wrong" it is to believe that if "security" is embraced, that liberty will be sacrificed.
I'm not saying that we don't need security because we do. To say it will not impact liberty or privacy is naive, a "big mistake," and I "strongly disagree."
Blaming the Internet for terrorism is like blaming money for corruption or blaming guns for murders; it's "dumb." Not all people who have money are corrupt and not all who have guns are murderers. Not all of us on the Internet are terrorists. No amount of monitoring, regulating, or censoring will change the behavior of people who wield those things for evil.
You may be wondering why some italicized words are in quotation marks. They are search terms that attorneys investigating Lehman Brothers had used to dig through 34 million pages of documents. Use those words paired with others listed in the examiner's report from pages 158 - 284 and you could be busted for incriminating correspondence. It's a "significantly" long list.
Land on a "bad" page or add the "wrong" words in an "email" and Tag, you're it! How far are we from being put on a watch list or arrested to voice a "concern" or to "discuss" that our government is becoming the biggest privacy threat to hit America?
According to the Associated Press, Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, "The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet."
I was "shocked" to see more of our privacy eroding away (not really). "I don't think we should" sit back, "speechless" and not voice our right to privacy or it will be "too late." Is it better to censor yourself than to "risk" "writing" an incriminating email? Have you ever used the word "haircut" in an email? That too is on the list of damaging search terms. If you use the wrong query terms, even in research, it can result in a "crisis" to your privacy. Yes these words would be taken in context but if you write "security," how many times have you used "breach" or another danger word?
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nursery school lessons
Don't they know...sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you.
I say we overload their Echelon system by appending
the list of "offending" words to all emails we send.
That'll teach 'em.
Give them so many hits their heads will spin.
And the bonus is that any retaliation based on those words being in an email is that since there is no "context" linking the sender to terrorism, as they are just a list of words, then DHS will be stepping into a big pile of legal doodoo.
lol
look at the list, it's laughably generic.
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
I don't get it, where exactly is the list?
Does it have a particular label in the table of contents. I really don't feel like skimming through the entire case if someone already has the direct link or reference. If not, oh well.
ooh mostly everything past pg 158
exhibit 5.1 ...this is a reason I hate PDFs, no deep linking...
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
Am not a US Citizen...
They don't have the jurisdiction to do diddly squat over people who know who they are.
What Would Help
What would really help would be if those government types would screen for a few choice words that would catch most spam, and put the spammers out of business if not in prison.
I won't list the words, but they have to do with Viagra, watches, diplomas, Nigerian inheritances, etc. It would be easy, and at least the government snoops would be providing a useful service that would enhance web security and remove huge volumes of unwanted traffic.
Their ratio of valid hits to words found would be much higher as well, adding to worker satisfaction and a much greater feeling of fulfillment. The American people might even think positively of them.
anyone wanna guess what words
anyone wanna guess what words are in the filter?
that's something we the little people should discuss and try to find out
so I'll start...
HAARP
why guess; read the article, it links a list
http://lehmanreport.jenner.com/VOLUME%207%20-%20APPENDICES%2...
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
oh
haha thanks for pointing that out :)
I had only read what was posted here
candidly speaking I don't usually click links unless it's a really compelling article or new topic and this one isn't a big surprise to me
especially since the Patriot Act
net kill switch = modern day book burning
web word watch = abridgment of freedom of speech
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
Mass book burning
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definition of homegrown terrorist
Elected government officials is the definition of homegrown terrorist. The people elected them, they were "grown" by our actions or inaction. Congress has terrorized the world, terrorized their electorate and stolen the money right out from under the people.
Unelected civil servants are terrified they might lose their position as tax parasites which has them earning twice that of those who pay their wages.
I want no part in government's intentional spread of terror.
I only long for peace and justice. This government provides neither.
Free includes debt-free!
Sir
We have put you on the list...please be advised...your new number when the train arrives is FEMA7445667262.
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We ask that all new re-education troops shower over here....don't worry about your clothes, you will get them back, just put them in this pile.
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Duplicate
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Speech Prevents Violence
Speech must be free; it is a safety valve for anger.
Much as I hate "hate speech," I very much prefer it to hate action.
Loud angry music with awful lyrics is not appealing to me, but I don't want it banned. Somewhere someone feels it expresses how they feel. I don't want that person to bottle up that feeling until expressed in action.
Speech is well worth protecting, even for those with the most extreme views. Preventing speech is like taking the rattle away from rattlesnakes.
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Janet Napolitano in our
Janet Napolitano in our number one terrorist. The idea that American citizens need to worry about what they say because they are being watched by some group worried about national security is right out of the Third Reich. This is terrorism at its finests.
The American people are supposed to be intimidated by these cretins. Don't say anything that is "politically incorrect" or we'll brand you a "potential terrorist". Hopefully, most Americans are not that easy to intimidate.l
Remember the definition of terrorism: the use of force, or the threat of the use of force to compel a person. And that's exactly what this is.
Americans have been living in fear for over a hundred years
at the tyranny of farma/pharma propaganda and the war on drugs securing monopoly.
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
-Albert Einstein
"I will never be without access to cannabis." -me
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
yes--
they have.
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--