Re: Welcome! You're now on the official DHS watchlist

["William (Bill) Badertscher" <wdc8 () GEORGETOWN EDU>]

Here's a copy of the referenced DHS document.

Pardon if it's already been sent to the list.






On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Solem, Vik P. <Vik.Solem () tufts edu> wrote:

> When I read a story about this topic, I wonder if the story is simply true
> or if it is designed to sound simple enough for a news byte (mis-spelling
> intended).
>
> Is someone really looking at a list of people whose email contain a simple
> list of keywords, or is that list contained in a few hundred lines of a
> 500,000 line program with a complex parsing algorithm that does the
> scanning?
>
> I used to believe that latter was typically the case, but I have noticed a
> trend in our national government.  With the renewal of the USA PATRIOT act,
> the continued use of the  no-fly list (classified secret), and the passing
> of the NDAA.  We can see that the federal government seeks to monitor
> without any accountability, block people from traveling without having to
> tell them why (ever), and to do so with the power of the military operating
> within our borders.  hmm - if I disappear after I post this will somebody
> tell my family? ;^)
>
> -Vik
>
> Vik Solem, CISSP, Sr. Applications Risk Consultant
> Tufts University, Information Security, vik.solem () tufts edu / 617-627-4326
> InfoSec Team: information_security () tufts edu / 617-627-6070
>
>
>
> On May 28, 2012, at 18:54 , Gene Spafford wrote:
>
> > I resent this kind of broadly-based, no-real-reason monitoring.   I
> suggest we all use some of the words, chosen at random, in our social media
> postings.
> > On May 28, 2012, at 6:42 PM, randy marchany wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to my buddy, Bryce Galbraith for this link. If you take a look
> at the Cybersecurity section, all of us have used these words in emails
> since it's our job. The link pretty much says what the topic is.
> > >
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html
> > > To my fellow conspirators who want a pork sandwich in Mexico, I salute
> you! This'll make sense when you read the article. :-)
> > > -r.



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