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DHS considers using January 6 to justify mass social media surveillance of citizens


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2021 Aug 17, 9:56am   338 views  4 comments

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering hiring private firms to analyze public social media posts for extremism “red flags”, sparking debate on such threat monitoring without violating the civil liberties of citizens.

The DHS and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies were blamed by the media for ignoring the signs of the Jan. 6 riot in Capitol Hill through content shared on social media platforms.


Why don't they just get the data from the NSA?

Note how no mention is made of the Antifa attacks across the country...including DC and the Capitol Building itself?

https://reclaimthenet.org/dhs-considers-mass-social-media-surveillance/

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1   richwicks   2021 Aug 17, 10:10am  

Oh, they already do this. They've been doing this for decades. In 2005, Google was known to be infiltrated by the NSA.

This is just an attempt at intimidation. They often pull this crap "better not say anything bad on Social Media or we'll get cha!" - well everybody hates the fucking government at this point and for good reason.
2   AmericanKulak   2021 Aug 17, 7:32pm  

How many social media accounts are fake? Way back in I think 2005, the Pentagon was paying contracting firms to post pro-war propaganda and talking points.
3   Patrick   2021 Aug 18, 10:53am  

Incompetence of DHS:

https://reclaimthenet.org/2-million-records-from-us-terror-and-no-fly-list-exposed-online/


On the heels of the news that the Department of Homeland Security is considering outsourcing surveillance of US citizens’ social media after the January 6th riot, a new report has revealed some of the consequences of building databases on citizens: that data can leak.

A secret terrorist watchlist containing 1.9 million records, including “no-fly” status, was exposed online. It is possible, but not stated, that bad actors came across the list, as it was passwordless and searchable on a couple of search engines.

Bob Diachenko of Discovery Research stumbled on the list in an open Elasticsearch cluster in July this year. He claims that the list had the sensitive information of more than 1.9 million people, including their names, nationality, date of birth, gender, no-fly status, and passport details.

Diachenko concluded that it was a no-fly list or a similar terrorist watchlist because it contained fields such as “no_fly_indicator” and “passport_id.”

“That was the only valid guess given the nature of data plus there was a specific field named ‘TSC_ID’,” Diachenko told BleepingComputer. TSC could stand for Terrorist Screening Center, a resource of the FBI used by multiple agencies for counterterrorism purposes. The TSC has a database, called the Terrorism Screening Database or the “no-fly-list.”

Diachenko is probably not the only person who stumbled on the list, considering it did not require a password to access, and it was searchable on the search engines ZoomEye and Censys.

Diachenko discovered the database on July 19 on a server with an IP address from Bahrain. He reported the data leak to the Department of Homeland Security on the same day, but claims it took the department three weeks to remove it. “I discovered the exposed data on the same day and reported it to the DHS….The exposed server was taken down about three weeks later, on August 9, 2021…It’s not clear why it took so long, and I don’t know for sure whether any unauthorized parties accessed it,” Diachenko wrote in his report.
4   Patrick   2023 Mar 17, 4:16pm  

https://patriots.win/p/16aTa42kld/the-other-side-of-the-twitter-fi/c/



Whoever openly threatened them like that is stupid. The criminals at "Homeland Security" (a perfectly Nazi name) are looking for excuses to continue violating US citizens' Constitutional rights on a mass scale.

A few good comments on that one:


–TheGreenDragon 303 points 11 hours ago +304 / -1
I wonder if they sent letters to BLM when they were trying to burn federal buildings down and threatening the white house. All these non elected employees need to go and we need to start over.

–catsfive 143 points 11 hours ago +143 / -0
Wondering if Madonna got one

–airborne3502 105 points 11 hours ago +105 / -0
Or Johnny Depp.

–John_Smallberries 100 points 11 hours ago +100 / -0
Or Jane Fonda.

–BarronVonSaltzburg26 88 points 10 hours ago +88 / -0
Or Kathy Griffin

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