Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:36AM from the knew-linked-in-had-to-be-good-for-something dept.

Okian Warrior writes with this news as reported by TechDirt: "The Washington Post revealed some of the code names for various NSA surveillance programs, including NUCLEON, MARINA and MAINWAY. Chris Soghoian has pointed out that a quick LinkedIn search for profiles with codenames like MARINA and NUCLEON happens to turn up profiles like this one which appear to reveal more codenames: 'Skilled in the use of several Intelligence tools and resources: ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV, COASTLINE, DISHFIRE, FASTSCOPE, OCTAVE/CONTRAOCTAVE, PINWALE, UTT, WEBCANDID, MICHIGAN, PLUS, ASSOCIATION, MAINWAY, FASCIA, OCTSKYWARD, INTELINK, METRICS, BANYAN, MARINA.' TRAFFICTHIEF, eh? WEBCANDID? Hmm... Apparently, NSA employees don't realize that information they post online can be revealed."

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Re:Simple explanation by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-11 07:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Again, incorrect. You consider not the phonetics of the acronym, but the phonetics of the letters the acronym represents, or as though it was a literal word if it doesn't stand for anything.