Be careful what you tweet

[fuzzy1]

They were public messages.

U.S. government eavesdropping has never been limited to just public messages.

I know they were public, but do they look at tweets, facebook etc. of thousands of passengers going through immigration every day?

They scan messages not by the thousands, but rather by the tens of millions or even billions per day. Just about anything outside the U.S. borders is legal for them to view, much of what crosses the border is fair game, and everything else is ... never mind.

[usbseawolf2000]

At least they weren't challenging the Anonymous hacker group with tweets.

[Bodgerx]

Originally Posted by Michgal007

I know they were public, but do they look at tweets, facebook etc. of thousands of passengers going through immigration every day? Also, how do they know whose account it is? Perhaps they have a "list" of words they monitor?

Edit: Found this along with the article:

The Department of Homeland Security was recently criticised over false accounts it set up on Twitter.
These are then used to scan networks for 'sensitive' words and then for tracking the people who use them.


Online privacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre requested information on the DHS's scans, which it says the agency announced in February last year.


The group claims that a request under the Freedom of Information Act to access the documentation has gone unanswered.


The words deemed as being sensitive by the DHS include:

• Illegal immigrant
• Outbreak
• Drill
• Strain
• Virus
• Recovery
• Deaths
• Collapse
• Human to animal
• Trojan

I think they may be all over this post then!

[hyo silver]

Originally Posted by Bodgerx

I think they may be all over this post then!

Uh oh. Anybody heard from Michgal lately?

[Michgal007]

I am still here.

Hold on a second, someone at the door.