The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We’ve fixed that below.)
Apparently "social media" is a trigger... on social media sites...
The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
Posts: 3495
Posted:
Mar 06 2012 09:44 pm
Fight the powar.
I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
aeonic
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Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 2747
Posted:
Mar 06 2012 10:30 pm
Sorry, I just can't buy that one, despite how much I'd like to. The idea that someone would plan something, anything, out other than a teenage fight or something on Facebook or another social site and use that kind of terminology (or that they would use it even then, teenagers being for the most part retarded) either highlights an immense lack of understanding about how people speak on that govt. organization's end or that list's simply bogus. I know government routinely does stupid, out-of-touch things because it's upper echelons are staffed by out-of-touch people, but this is ludicrous.
Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much.
Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
Posts: 1087
Posted:
Mar 07 2012 11:53 am
I would tend to think that the list is bogus, given the government's fairly successful record busting terror plots these last decade.
"Spanish bombs, yot' quierro y finito
Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs
