LinkedIn Used To Create Database of 27,000 US Intelligence Personnel
An anonymous reader writes: A new group, Transparency Toolkit, has mined LinkedIn to reveal and analyze the resumes of over 27,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community. In the process, Transparency Toolkit said it found previously unknown secret codewords and references to surveillance technologies and projects. "'Transparency Toolkit uses open data to watch the watchers and hold the powerful to account,' the group's website says. 'We build free software to collect and analyze open data from a variety of sources. Then we work with investigative journalists and human rights organizations to turn that into useful, actionable knowledge. Currently, our primary focuses are investigating surveillance and human rights abuses.'"
unknown code words ?
Has a strange new computer language been discovered ?
or just "forth" subroutines !
Go Forth and factor !
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
So it's mining for a mix of deliberate misinformation and incompetence?
I mean, couldn't you just get that from Congress?
e.g. you search for one of the tools Snowden refers to, and it leads to CVs with those skills on it, which mentions others:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-miller/39/741/a49
"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"
I bet Monster.com would be a real gold mine for similar info.
> Just sayin' [...]
Are you threatening me?
When you decide to dedicate part of your life to annoy powerful people who regularly break the law and later become immune to the consequences, at some point you have to decide whether to try to be invisible, risking a mistake that could make you disappear; or trying to be as visible as possible, to make it too cumbersome to dispose of you.
I wonder how does one take that decision.
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Everyone mentioning "area 51" or "the Philadelphia experiment" must be a member of the intelligence community
only a moron would include 'Unknown Code Words' and 'references to surveillance technologies and projects' in a resume. Seems to be over 27,000 of them.
There was an unknown error in the submission.
Were LinkedIn profiles used in the little games of Spot The Fed at DEF CON? Seems that if you could tie someone to their profile, you could determine a lot more about them than they're actually willing to tell you directly.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
So we got the rapist at bay
Got the traitor at bay
Got the tranny at bay
What we need is to consolidate
We need to get at bay a rapist who is a traitor who is a tranny
Then we can proclaim
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Thank you for your support
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Typical 21st century armchair warriors, pick on easy targets and make it look like you're a hero Sticking It To The Man when you know you're really living in a comfy democracy where nothing particularly bad is going to happen to you. Try doing the same in various other countries around the world and see how long it is before someone kicks down your door at 3am and your family never see you again.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/job-networking-site-linkedin-filled-with-secret-nsa-pro-514057863
Just sayin'. Don't those guys know that you don't antagonize the mighty and powerful, especially when they have armies of gun-toting thugs at their disposal, the ability to utterly destroy anyone's life financially, the power to detain anyone for an indefinite amount of time, suspend all of your rights without even needing to tell you why and abosolute immunity for any wrongdoing? And should I mention that they have shown no fear at all about using those powers? And that the vast majority of the populace and the media supports them? There's bravery and there is stupidity. This is just stupidity.
That's what has been said to those intent on change right before every sea-change in government/leadership.
It's a numbers game a government cannot win without first destroying the people's will to resist. If it were a matter of simple firepower, practically no revolution or rebellion from history would ever have succeeded.
Any single individual can hurt, be it ever so slight, an entire government of many thousands (Snowden), but that government of many thousands can only hurt that single individual, and can only kill him/her once.
If even just a significant fraction of the population decided "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...was their new mission statement, the government would fall. The military, being composed of volunteers from the same population, would at the very least fracture, and possibly refuse for the most part to engage US citizens on the civilian leaders' behalf.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
... Lets face it, its still our fucking government, we shouldn't fear them. We should stand up while there is still time ...
Too fukin' late
From June 2013, Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names.
Best Slashdot Co
What are they going to do? Cover my granny-grocery-shopping helping, double-life having, answer-to-the-question-seeking neighbor's house with toilet paper?
I work in the defense industry. They discourage even having a LinkedIn profile for this reason.
That's the sort of mentality they want us sheeps to have. I for one applaud these white knights of data mining.
Bottom line, these "intelligence" folks had either the nerve or stupidity to post their super secret clandestine code names then they deserve to be smacked down.
And if these guys are not subjected to any of the bad consequences you listed would you be willing to reevaluate your arguments?
Just between us billy goats gruff, there is no legitimate service that demands your password, that it is foolish to think they aren't reading everything that you email, and perhaps you should check with your ISP or employer if its okay to give out your password.
I simply cannot fathom any DOD employees being allowed to use LinkedIn, period.
Or anyone else for that matter
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Wasn't LookingGlass the call sign of the SAC dooms day command air craft during the height of the cold war? There is a touch of irony if so.
I guess I should take those nuclear launch codes off my LinkedIn page. Remind me to get around to that sometime.
May they never be able to get a job on the outside ever again! The price you pay for betraying your country and spying on your own.
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