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DHS Forced to Release List of Keywords Used to Monitor Social Networking sites

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If you are thinking about tweeting about clouds, pork, exercise or even Mexico, think again. Doing so may result in a closer look by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

In a story appearing earlier today on the U.K’s Daily Mail website, it was reported that the DHS has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor various social networking sites. The list provides a glimpse into what DHS describes as “signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.”

The list was posted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act, before suing to obtain the release of the documents. The documents were part of the department’s 2011 ’Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify ‘media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities’.

The information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The Daily Mail’s article noted the Electronic Privacy Information Center wrote a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, describing it’s choice of words as ‘broad, vague and ambiguous’.
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Also, for the interested the report that was released can be found here (PDF)
 
The amount of work that has to be done to make the meat fit enough for human consumption.

  • Cooking pork to a uniform internal temperature of at least 144 °F (62.2 °C). It is prudent to use a margin of error to allow for variation in internal temperature and error in the thermometer.
  • Freezing pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 °F (−15 °C) or three days at −4 °F (−20 °C) kills larval worms.
  • Cooking wild game meat thoroughly. Freezing wild game meats, unlike freezing pork products, even for long periods of time, may not effectively kill all worms. This is because the species of trichinella that typically infects wild game is more resistant to freezing than the species that infects pigs.
  • Cooking all meat fed to pigs or other wild animals.
  • Keeping pigs in clean pens with floors that can be washed (such as concrete). This is standard in Germany, where raw pork is a common delicacy and trichinosis is rarer than in the U.S
  • Not allowing hogs to eat uncooked carcasses of other animals, including rats, which may be infected with trichinosis.
  • Cleaning meat grinders thoroughly when preparing ground meats.
  • Control and destruction of meat containing trichinae, e.g., removal and proper disposal of porcine diaphragms prior to public sale of meat.
 
Too bad that most actual potential "threats" (terrorists, smugglers etc) wouldn't use social media to strategize... unless they're complete idiots.

Also why the hell is World Health Organization on there? I'm not allowed to criticize WHO or something?

Edit: It also says DDoS means Dedicated Denial of Service there. It's Distributed Denial of Service isn't it? So as long as we just type that we should be fine! Edit²: Oh wait, they also have "Denial of Service" there. Dammit!
 
But in my Terrorist Coven #567 we use secret language made of ordinary words, should be flagged too!

Rustle Rustle Vitamin Ray Sunlight Oceanic.....Ripple Tangerine Eleven Dog Dingo....Internet Red Tutorial Pasta Gravity
 
I joked with my friend once on a long road trip that "I didn't see a single cloud for the past 3 hours." Now we regularly text each other "cloud reports." I guess we're fucked.
 
Jason Raize '75 - '04 said:
The amount of work that has to be done to make the meat fit enough for human consumption.

  • Cooking pork to a uniform internal temperature of at least 144 °F (62.2 °C). It is prudent to use a margin of error to allow for variation in internal temperature and error in the thermometer.
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138 °F or bust.
 
As a data geek this is just a damned sexy problem. You'd have to take in all those words and pick out the ones that are pertinent. Word proximity searches and all that.

They essentially have to get some data from EVERYONE at one point and that's terrible. Terrible, but sexy.
 
Some of these don't make sense. MDA / DMAT / FDA / CDC are all overly technical terms. No activist or violent group or person would be using them.

ETA also doesn't make sense because by far the dominant use would be "estimated time of arrival", rather than referring to the group ETA.
 
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