Department of Homeland Security Monitoring Social Media

[Bolty]

Stolen from Slashdot comes news of how the Electronic Privacy Information Center released information given to a Department of Homeland Security contractor regarding what social media keywords are being scanned "for our safety."

Therefore, I would just like to say:

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Coast Guard (USCG) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol Secret Service (USSS) National Operations Center (NOC) Homeland Defense Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Task Force Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Fusion Center Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Marshal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Guard Red Cross United Nations (UN) Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness Mitigation Prevention Response Recovery Dirty Bomb Domestic nuclear detection Emergency management Emergency response First responder Homeland security Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness initiative Militia Shooting Shots fired Evacuation Deaths Hostage Explosion (explosive) Police Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) Organized crime Gangs National security State of emergency Security Breach Threat Standoff SWAT Screening Lockdown Bomb (squad or threat) Crash Looting Riot Emergency Landing Pipe bomb Incident Facility Hazmat Nuclear Chemical Spill Suspicious package/device Toxic National laboratory Nuclear facility Nuclear threat Cloud Plume Radiation Radioactive Leak Biological infection (or event) Chemical Chemical burn Biological Epidemic Hazardous Hazardous material incident Industrial spill Infection Powder (white) Gas Spillover Anthrax Blister agent Exposure Burn Nerve agent Ricin Sarin North Korea Outbreak Contamination Exposure Virus Evacuation Bacteria Recall Ebola Food Poisoning Foot and Mouth (FMD) H5N1 Avian Flu Salmonella Small Pox Plague Human to human Human to ANIMAL Influenza Center for Disease Control (CDC) Drug Administration (FDA) Public Health Toxic Agro Terror Tuberculosis (TB) Agriculture Listeria Symptoms Mutation Resistant Antiviral Wave Pandemic Infection Water/air borne Sick Swine Pork Strain Quarantine H1N1 Vaccine Tamiflu Norvo Virus Epidemic World Health Organization (WHO and components) Viral Hemorrhagic Fever E. Coli Infrastructure security Airport CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources) AMTRAK Collapse Computer infrastructure Communications infrastructure Telecommunications Critical infrastructure National infrastructure Metro WMATA Airplane (and derivatives) Chemical fire Subway BART MARTA Port Authority NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center) Transportation security Grid Power Smart Body scanner Electric Failure or outage Black out Brown out Port Dock Bridge Canceled Delays Service disruption Power lines Drug cartel Violence Gang Drug Narcotics Cocaine Marijuana Heroin Border Mexico Cartel Southwest Juarez Sinaloa Tijuana Torreon Yuma Tucson Decapitated U.S. Consulate Consular El Paso Fort Hancock San Diego Ciudad Juarez Nogales Sonora Colombia Mara salvatrucha MS13 or MS-13 Drug war Mexican army Methamphetamine Cartel de Golfo Gulf Cartel La Familia Reynose Nuevo Leon Narcos Narco banners (Spanish equivalents) Los Zetas Shootout Execution Gunfight Trafficking Kidnap Calderon Reyosa Bust Tamaulipas Meth Lab Drug trade Illegal immigrants Smuggling (smugglers) Matamoros Michoacana Guzman Arellano-Felix Beltran-Leyva Barrio Azteca Artistics Assassins Mexicles New Federation Terrorism Al Queda (all spellings) Terror Attack Iraq Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Agro Environmental terrorist Eco terrorism Conventional weapon Target Weapons grade Dirty bomb Enriched Nuclear Chemical weapon Biological weapon Ammonium nitrate Improvised explosive device IED (Improvised Explosive Device) Abu Sayyaf Hamas FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia) IRA (Irish Republican Army) ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) Basque Separatists Hezbollah Tamil Tiger PLF (Palestine Liberation Front) PLO (Palestine Libration Organization) Car bomb Jihad Taliban Weapons cache Suicide bomber Suicide attack Suspicious substance AQAP (Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula) AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) Yemen Pirates Extremism Somalia Nigeria Radicals Al-Shabaab Home grown Plot Nationalist Recruitment Fundamentalism Islamist Emergency Hurricane Tornado Twister Tsunami Earthquake Tremor Flood Storm Crest Temblor Extreme weather Forest fire Brush fire Ice Stranded/Stuck Help Hail Wildfire Tsunami Warning Center Magnitude Avalanche Typhoon Shelter-in-place Disaster Snow Blizzard Sleet Mud slide or Mudslide Erosion Power outage Brown out Warning Watch Lightening Aid Relief Closure Interstate Burst Emergency Broadcast System Cyber security Botnet DDOS (dedicated denial of service) Denial of service Malware Virus Trojan Keylogger Cyber Command 2600 Spammer Phishing Rootkit Phreaking Cain and abel Brute forcing Mysql injection Cyber attack Cyber terror Hacker China Conficker Worm Scammers Social media

Do I win a free GPS now, or am I too late?

[Jester]

Thanks, Bolty! I feel safer already, knowing the vigilant eye of the United States government is watching over out little corner of the internet.

-Jester

[Bolty]

I aim to please! You can never be too safe from those terrorists!

I'm also wondering how many of those words/phrases have already been used on this forum at some point in time. I'm too lazy to search them all.

Bonus credit: please use "Tamaulipas" in a sentence.

[FireIceTalon]

no Communist, Marxist, Socialist, or Revolution/Revolutionary on that list? Sheesh, I feel neglected now.

[kandrathe]

Therefore, I would just like to say:

هل تتكلم اللغة العربية؟

Someday, I pray to Allah, that I be made President of either Blackwater, or a bomb making company. If not that, then I would be content to work as a senior scientist producing chemical or biological weapons.

حَوّامتي مُمْتِلئة بِأَنْقَلَيْسون

[DeeBye]

I am an

ADULT MALE

father, and my young son has many friends in our neighbourhood. We have a pool and we enjoy it very much, but my son has a lot more fun with our pool when his friends can come over and swim in it, so he'll go out

LOOKING FOR

some of the neighbour kids that can swim with him in our pool. Swimming with dad just isn't fun

I don't mind neighbourhood kids swimming in our pool - it's there to be enjoyed. They always have a great time, and it's fun to watch the kids play. I do have a few rules though -

YOUNG GIRLS

and boys have to know how to swim, stay entirely in the shallow end, wear a life jacket, or have their parents watch them while in our pool. I take pool safety very seriously.

I also do not allow street clothes in my pool. Stray threads from cutoff jeans and junk in kids' pockets mess up my pool filter. The kids must be

IN BATHING SUITS

to swim in our pool, and have their own towels. I just don't have enough towels for everyone!

[eppie]

2/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-searching-your-facebook-and-twitter-for-these-words/]social media keywords[/url] are being scanned "for our safety."

ooooo it is for our safety?? And I was still thinking it was to be able to sell more crap to us by making better advertisements.

[NuurAbSaal]

Bust

This. Within reason.

take care
Tarabulus

[kandrathe]

Stuff

I read the document from EPIC. It was nice that at the end, they didn't redact the twitter account (DHSNOCMMC1) used to do the monitoring of twitter feeds. Someone might be inclined to feed it @DHSNOCMMC1.