NSA to datamine myspace/friendster

[indy007]

hmmmm

Meanwhile, the NSA is pursuing its plans to tap the web, since phone logs have limited scope. They can only be used to build a very basic picture of someone's contact network, a process sometimes called "connecting the dots". Clusters of people in highly connected groups become apparent, as do people with few connections who appear to be the intermediaries between such groups. The idea is to see by how many links or "degrees" separate people from, say, a member of a blacklisted organisation.

By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they are gay.

"You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumé. People don't realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days," says Callas.

[Debonair]

does obl have a myspace page?
i know he used to have a blog...

[Yeager]

if I were interested in transporting unlawful digital data across the world net with a high degree of anonymity, I would clearly study myspace as a potential delivery vehicle.  I am pleased the NSA has this figured out as well as myself.  Maybe they can hamer down on some child predators and woman rapers while they are in there snooping around.

[nirvana]

I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't been doing it for a looooong while and have just now announced it.

[WhiteHawk]

Originally posted by nirvana
I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't been doing it for a looooong while and have just now announced it.

You leftist libral commie loving tree hugger!.. If those kids/terrorists arent doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear.     How dare you suggest that our patriotic christian god-fearing leaders use warrants and proper court procedure when they go after these potential suicide dirty nuke bombers!  Sure the country was built on these procedures to protect us against a potential corrupt govt or even a govt bought and sold by a corporation or even a foreign interest inorder to rot the very structure of the system that built this mighty country away while they loot the treasury and indebt every man woman and child still required to pay taxes for years to come, but you go too far.  Democratic constitutional procedures are for panywaste puke eaters with no guts for war.  War is ugly and if you cant give away you and your childrens rights in order to beat these evildoers than you deserve to be spied on, punk.  

Just kiddin dude.

[Hawklore]

better remove that chechen rebel remark from one of my photos..

http://www.myspace.com/hawklore88




****!

They allready removed it..

WHAT THE ****!?


Wonder if they will label my dog as a communist sympathizer.