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Datamining the NSA

Posted by Zonk on from the turnabout-is-fair-play dept.

elmartinos writes "With official permission from the data protection committee in the Austrian Office of the Federal Chancellor, quintessence (an association for the re-establishment of information civil rights) has data mined an extensive mailing list related to the Biometric Consortium, which is part of the NSA. Heise (Google translation) writes that a quintessenz activist was able to get access to the mailing list through social engineering, and used a PHP script to extract 1GB worth of data. Quintessenz is using the open source tool Weka for data mining, and Kea for text mining. The first chapter of the gathered information is available online."

11 of 236 comments (clear)

  1. I'd sign everyone up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for the 2005 Warez list. They'll thank you for it.

  2. Re:Google translation needed for Australian? by JadeNB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Crikey, here's the info, you poofters" = "These are the data we collected".

  3. Re:Google translation needed for Australian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish I could slap you senseless...

  4. Re:Axis of Evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    then we have to remember not to forget poland!

  5. Re:Like a lesbian on the Titanitc by asoap · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I don't get it.

    I understand why a lesbian would be going down.

    I understand why the titanic would be going down.

    I don't understand why a lesbian on the titanic would be going down any harder, then a lesbian not on the titanic. I would actually see it the other way around. I assume that it would be because the lesbian is going down and the ship is going down so it's "going down * 2". But if your on a ship that's going down, you wouldn't be going down on your partner.. So it would actually be "going down * 1" or rather, "plain old going down".

    Hehe... The sillyness of slashdot. I'm sorry, when I saw the lesbian reference, I had to make a comment.

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  6. Re:Axis of Evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah, you'll be taking care of the Jewish Problem again, I see.

  7. Correction.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It's not Shemen, it's Shum (shit and cum)...

    Damn, I just messed up a perfect delivery.

  8. Austria? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well g'day mate! Let's put shrimp on the barbie! /Dumb & Dumber

  9. How is this redundant... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Mods? Get it together!

  10. See, it's like a double entendre , stupid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Bloody hell, it's not that hard to figure out. If you were a lesbian, and about to inescapably drown, then freeze to death, then be trapped under a 2,000,000 ton ship, what would you be spending your last moments on Earth doing?!!!! And then you have the obvious time constraint, so you're really going to put the pedal to the metal, so to speak.

    Plus, the ship you're on would be "going down" too.

  11. You dumbass mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The one time in the whole history of /. that an "In Soviet Russia" joke is actually true, and you mod it "Troll"?

    You utter waste of protoplasm.