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| Homeland Security Is Monitoring The Drudge Report, The New York Times | |
| 2012-01-12 | |
| Excerpt: "It's unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks online for at least the past 18 months." Sadly, R-burg does not appear on the list.....
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| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #7 JohnQC, Many (if not all) US military commands have CNN and FoxNews running to provide situational awareness. Are you going to wait for the Pentagon to tell you about airplanes hitting skyscrapers in NYC? Ask the Pacific Fleet HQ at Perl Harbor about that Telegram that Washington sent back on December 7, 1941. While SNA (Social Network Analysis) can be applied to other things than, well, Social Networks, it can and is being applied to Facebook, et al. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-01-12 16:37 |
| #6 I imagine a lot of those who visit Rantburg come from ".mil" and ".gov" domains, and their foreign equivalents. Also a goodly number of ".edu", which can be a lot of things. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-12 15:45 |
| #5 It depends on why and for what purpose HS is monitoring the various sites. The sites are public sites. Somebody in HS gets paid to look at news and other interesting stuff? Most of the rest of us do it for nothing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-01-12 14:35 |
| #4 Reading newspapers, aka Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), is a main stay of intelligence services everywhere. Why is extending this to the internet that much different? Drudges front page is public. See, for example: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629004576136381178584352.html |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-01-12 13:32 |
| #3 http://youtu.be/fsYrqXpe908 South Korea to abandon real name posts. Internet traffic had dropped by two thirds. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-12 05:37 |
| #2 The race is on. Countries race to control internet. Black lists, Bio Meterics of Argentina. First sale copyrights. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-12 04:31 |
| #1 What's the point in monitoring Drudge. He's just splashing headlines all over his page. A jumping point maybe, nothing more. Still I bet they are READING Rantburg. With real benefit. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-01-12 01:01 |