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The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos

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Re: The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos

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Post by gozur88 »

Makes sense. They don't need to go poking through your stuff if you put it all online willingly. I would go so far as to say they're being negligent if they don't go through all potentially fruitful sources of public data.

I've never understood it, but people proactively put all kinds of important data online. People have been busted for murder because they bragged about it on twitter, so I wouldn't at all be surprised to see some guy posting selfies of himself next to a bomb he plans to use in a marketplace attack, or a picture of himself along with the other people in his terrorist cell.

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Post by gobengo »

googlryas wrote: post #8
chinathrow wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CIA isn't police.

You could argue that while they don't have police authority, they do do police work.

In the past there have been legislative efforts specifically to separate international policiing from domestic policing in the US.

The purpose of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act "is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States."

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Post by ashwinl »

tobltobs wrote: post #12
josephpmay wrote: post #11

They've been doing this for awhile, and it's actively used in the Middle East to predict locations of IED. Also DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight.

> Middle East to predict locations of IED. Would be interesting to know how that would work.

http://www.army.mil/article/125989/JIEDDO_launches_redesigne...

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Post by Wonderdonkey »

slim wrote: post #20

Docker is on In-Q-tel portfolio

Came here to see if anyone else noticed that and what people made of it. That was the real revelation in this story.

If nothing else, if you followed that one tutorial on running a Tor hidden service using Docker, maybe stop doing that now.

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Post by nicelynicely »

EliRivers wrote: post #18
NN88 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh...yeah. They are. You all hate belgium and paris and mumbai and lower manhattan attacks...but...don't want to accept the reality of what it takes to prevent them. You can't have it both ways. You know you can't....all you can hope is for better regulation.

Perhaps if we'd had better regulation while the CIA was running around destabilising parts of the world and installing the dictatorships that led to the current situation, we wouldn't be in this mess. As it is, we know what it takes to prevent these attacks; a few generations of sane foreign policy that doesn't leave large chunks of various populations so full of anger and rage and humiliation that they're willing to…

Thank you for writing that.

The only way this will get fixed is if European people take a stand.

That means taking a stand against america and american politics/war mongering, that is sad but its gone too far.

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Post by josephpmay »

nxzero wrote: post #15
josephpmay wrote: post #11

They've been doing this for awhile, and it's actively used in the Middle East to predict locations of IED. Also DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight.

>> "DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight." Have an example of this?

Here's one of the shell companies:

http://www.strategiclinkpartners.com/

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Post by nxzero »

josephpmay wrote: post #29
nxzero wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight." Have an example of this?

Here's one of the shell companies: http://www.strategiclinkpartners.com/

What is the difference between a shell and a defense contractor?

Only thing I see so far is the DigaForce deal; co-founder's profile on LinkedIn lacks any "oddness" in my opinion.

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