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More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
mrogers writes "USA Today has a story describing how the NSA looks for suspicious calling patterns in the huge volumes of traffic data it collects. "Templates" such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls are used to identify leads, which are forwarded to the FBI for investigation. There have been complaints that low-quality leads are drawing agents away from other cases, and similar pattern-matching approaches have been found wanting in the past. Can data mining identify terrorists?"
And don't tell me That's just television because no, sir, It's not TV, it's HBO.
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They should formalize this practice and make a palindrome out of the resulting acronym. That way we can be distracted with how cool they are to think of such things instead of worrying about what they're actually doing.
NSA-ASN - NSA's Analysis of Social Networks.
*sigh* I'm very honestly starting to get a sick feeling in my stomach over the direction our (my) country is headed. And yet, I feel like there's nothing I can do about it. Vote? Yeah... right.
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From now on, I'm using world of warcraft to plan my activities.
She's always getting calls from various places and then making a flurry of more local calls. She uses code phrases like "your cousin's baby was born last night and it's a boy", or "Great Aunt Zelda had a stroke but they say she's going to be okay".
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
That sounds like terrorist talk to me!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I mean its obvious.
A band leader gets a call from a booker in Europe who wants them come play.
The band leader calls all the band members to line them up for the tour.
They cancel any local gigs that overlapped.
Those venues or bands call other bands or subs to fill those spots.
Result: The NSA gets to be first in line for tickets.
Squirrel!
Bah, who needs to be anonymous? I'll freely admit that I start off random conversations with "in" friends with, instead of "hello", "kill the president". Then I randomly throw in other potential keywords at random points later if I feel like it.
;)
Hey, if you hear of someone from Iowa ending up in Guantanamo, you know what happened.
As it says in the Constitution, Lenin is in my shower.
Why do I get the feeling this entire thread was written by one person?
1) Niece in Pakistan...has first son
2)Niece calls aunt in Dearborn for 5 minutes using neighbor's cell phone
3)Proud aunt calls all of her friends and extended family in US/Canada
4)FBI agent from Detroit digs out auntie's file....adds entry
5) Auntie's Son at U of M attends Arab Heritage meeting in student union...add that to his file
6)Cross reference Auntie and Son's files and calling patterns
7)Find both called cousin in Italy
8) Cousin in Italy was previously arrested at anti-WTO meeting (what greater enemy to the USA than that!?)
9)Scoop up cousin and fly him of to Egypt as a "person of interest"
10) Question cousin about his ties to Al Quaeda...specifically his second cousin's neighbor
11) Despite 48 sleepless hours of interrogation, a sound beating, exposure to cold, being stripped and humiliated this "terrorist" claims to have never been to Pakistan and has never met his second cousin's neighbor
12) Fly cousin to Afganistan and leave him to rot for 6 months
13) Drop him off in the countryside of Bulgaria
14) Profit.
sorry
SURELY NOT!!!!!