You can catch me over at Salon’s blog The Machinist this week, guest blogging about various topics of at least tangential relevance to the blog’s general subject matter. Stop by and watch the commenters carve me up as I try to subsist without my usual thousands of words allowance, 3 month deadlines, and army of fact-checkers and copy editors…
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Last week on Salon.com, I tried to illustrate some of the powerful intelligence data capture made possible by the NSA’s supposed keyword search technology (for a more serious look at data mining technology and the NSA, try chapter 12 of Safe):
O say, ma, been laden forever!
Working with your phone company, skilled NSA operatives are rounding up evil terrorists who speak Islamofascist jive.By Evan Ratliff
Salon.com | May. 12, 2006
Memo: NSA headquarters, Fort Meade
Automated data mining analysis, transcript #HS48652-6
Target: Evan Ratliff
Communication: Domestic e-mail intercepts
Keyword extraction recommendation: Significant terror risk. Operations imminent.From: eratliff@*********.com
To: samschaffer@*****.com
Yo, Schaffe! What’s up?! How’s life down South? Tried calling your cell, but you must have been out hitting the bars pretty hard last night. Did you check out that little home-style restaurant I told you about? The house specialty is lamb chop, OH SNAP!! You’ll love it.
drink a PBR for me,
e
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