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

[Louis APONTE <louisaponte () WEBER EDU>]

It would be my hope that I or we, would not be "people of interest" in this regard until we appear on several list. The 
fact that appliances have been tapped into bottle necked conduits was revealed with the Folsom street AT&T offices in 
San Francisco with the case of the whistle blower. Also the funneling of all comm traffic recently thru some accidental 
sites seems, like a created detour more then accident, in my opinion. Eighteen minutes of  detoured .gov and .mil 
communications an accident, please.
I was just thinking my wife works with international students ($audi's, Chin3s3, and others) and I talk to much threat 
talk. Can we be on several list? Oh yes ! Kool may have to dig up my Dick Tracy wrist watch.
Well when the Utah data center goes on line, I'll see if I can bring my concerns to them. Will let you know how that 
goes.

> > > On 5/30/2012 at 1:39 PM, in message <2BDDE8D5-F217-49AB-AD61-BF5A1FBB8895 () tufts edu>, "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.