Monday, January 9, 2012

Legal Domestic Spying Revealed in Facebook

Apparently* using the words below in search will get you on a watch list.

"Muslim Brotherhood, Islam, Obama, The White House, Illuminati, E. Holder, The New World Order, Muslim, Barack Obama, Satan, Lucifer, FEMA, Antichrist, CIA, Bilderberger, Homeland Security"

One way to defeat the list is to publish them and ask you contacts to distribute them, search and share them in posts like this. In the spirit of the rights of freedom of speech and free association I publish them here to defeat the algorithm's usefulness to domestic spying organizations.

As stupid and broad brushed as this list is, it's not the end to defeat this one algorithm by sharing it and publishing it in the first 25 words of a post or searching it randomly - what we need to do in the long run is apply the rule of law to the internet --- add safe guards, checks and balances that protect the civil society --- so innocents don't get caught in a growing and extremely invasive, dangerous, unregulated national spying colossus that is growing inside governments around the world as we speak.


*A discussion in Facebook - reprinted here with the video embed from the original post explains all:




Michael Holloway via Amy MacPherson
Amy MacPherson shared a post about the reveiling of a Online Spying search algorithm someone is running on Facebook:

"COMPUTER GURUS: Can you please view this clip and either confirm or deny the noted security/privacy holes on Facebook? It claims our personal posts are being filtered & redirected to other's group pages, without our knowledge or consent."


I replied:


"Sounds like someone is trying to screw with a Homeland Security's search algorithm that's targeting insane right wing people that are likely they think to go 'postal' as the Republic fades to Empire.
"Solution: EVERYBODY search those words in Facebook. Apparently you'll be helping extreme groups - but at the same time you'd also be protecting yourself.
"Someone should write in html all those search words and post them - to make them easy to copy and paste.
"OK I'll do it.
"Muslim Brotherhood, Islam, Obama, The White House, Illuminati, E. Holder, The New World Order, Muslim, Barack Obama, Satan, Lucifer, FEMA, Antichrist, CIA, Bilderberger, Homeland Security, I'll omit the last one (Lady Gaga,) as it's a control marker that flags this list.
" 'They' will adjust the algorithm to account for this and re-apply a new one to the www. So as well as posting the list and sharing it as widely as possible - you should also ask your memeber of Parliament to Stop the Online Spying legislation now making it's way into law in many countries right now (under different names in each country). In the US it's called, ironically, Stop Online Piracy. In Canada your friends are OpenMedia.ca - http://stopspying.ca/ and Professor Michael Geist University of Ottawa Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Lawhttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/ "

Amy MacPherson's post from my Facebook 'Wall' (my feed stream) - http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=208059365950381&id=728231001



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