Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the
government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
* Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following
freedom of information request
* Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the
U.S. and not for signs of general dissent
By Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 09:32 GMT, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:46 GMT, 26 May 2012
Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the
internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the
Freedom of Information Act
Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the
internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the
Freedom of Information Act
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of
keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and
online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al
Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly
innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.
Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds
new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the
internet searching for domestic and external threats.
The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop
Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which
instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on
DHS and response activities'.
Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House
hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media
organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.
However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the
internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of
general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.
As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of
unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes
such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant
busts.
The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information
Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom
of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.
In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of
words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.
They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment
protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of
Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and
disasters.'
A senior Homeland Security official told the Huffington Post that the
manual 'is a starting point, not the endgame' in maintaining situational
awareness of natural and man-made threats and denied that the government
was monitoring signs of dissent.
However the agency admitted that the language used was vague and in need
of updating.
Spokesman Matthew Chandler told website: 'To ensure clarity, as part of
.... routine compliance review, DHS will review the language contained in
all materials to clearly and accurately convey the parameters and
intention of the program.'
They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment
protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of
Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and
disasters.'
A senior Homeland Security official told the Huffington Post that the
manual 'is a starting point, not the endgame' in maintaining situational
awareness of natural and man-made threats and denied that the government
was monitoring signs of dissent.
However the agency admitted that the language used was vague and in need
of updating.
Spokesman Matthew Chandler told website: 'To ensure clarity, as part of
.... routine compliance review, DHS will review the language contained in
all materials to clearly and accurately convey the parameters and
intention of the program.'
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Here's the list.
Let's see if any black helicopters start circling my house...
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Catagory: Domestic Security
Assassination Attack Domestic security
Drill Exercise Cops
Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance
Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office)
National preparedness Mitigation Prevention
Response Recovery Dirty bomb
Domestic nuclear detection Emergency management
Emergency response First responder Homeland security
Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness
initiative Militia Shooting
Shots fired Evacuation Deaths
Hostage Explosion (explosive) Police
Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) Organized crime Gangs
National security State of emergency Security
Breach Threat Standoff
SWAT Screening Lockdown
Bomb (squad or threat) Crash Looting
Riot Emergency Landing Pipe bomb
Incident Facility HAZMAT & Nuclear
Hazmat Nuclear Chemical spill
Suspicious package/device Toxic National laboratory
Nuclear facility Nuclear threat Cloud
Plume Radiation Radioactive Leak
Biological infection (or event) Chemical
Chemical burn Biological Epidemic
Hazardous Hazardous material incident
Industrial spill Infection Powder (white) Gas
Spillover Anthrax Blister agent
Chemical agent Exposure Burn
Nerve agent Ricin Sarin
North Korea Health Concern + H1N1 Outbreak
Contamination Exposure Virus
Evacuation Bacteria Recall
Ebola Food Poisoning Foot and Mouth (FMD)
H5N1 Avian Flu
Strain Quarantine H1N1
Vaccine Salmonella Small Pox Plague
Human to human Human to Animal Influenza
Center for Disease Control CDC
Federal Drug Administration FDA
Public Health Toxic Agro Terror
Tuberculosis (TB) Tamiflu Norvo Virus
Epidemic Agriculture Listeria Symptoms
Mutation Resistant Antiviral
Wave Pandemic Infection
Water/air borne Sick Swine
Pork World Health Organization
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever E. Coli Anthrax
Tom Daschle Patrick Leahy Patriot Act
Portable Coffins Marshal Law Jesse Ventura
FEMA Police State Internment Camps
Fusion Centers Insurrection Quarantine
Outbreak Pandemic Detention Centers
Kent State G20 Conscription
Civil Rights Suspension Constitution
Consitutional Rights Toilet
Catagory: Infrastructure security
Airport CIKR (Critical Infrastructure& Key
Resources)
AMTRAK Collapse Computer infrastructure
Communications infrastructure Telecommunications
Critical infrastructure National infrastructure
Metro WMATA Airplane (and derivatives)
Chemical fire Subway BART
MARTA Port Authority
NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)
Transportation security Grid Power
Smart Body scanner Electric Failure or outage
Black out Brown out Port
Dock Bridge Cancelled
Delays Service disruption Power lines
Southwest Border Violence Drug cartel Violence
Gang Drug Narcotics
Cocaine Marijuana Heroin
Border Mexico Cartel
Southwest Juarez Sinaloa
Tijuana Torreon Yuma
Tucson Decapitated U.S. Consulate
Consular El Paso Fort Hancock San Diego
Ciudad Juarez Nogales Sonora
Colombia Mara salvatrucha MS13 or MS-13
Drug war Mexican army Methamphetamine
Cartel de Golfo Gulf Cartel La Familia
Reynosa Nuevo Leon Narcos
Narco banners (Spanish equivalents) Los Zetas
Shootout Execution Gunfight Trafficking
Kidnap Calderon Reyosa
Bust Tamaulipas Meth Lab
Drug trade Illegal immigrants Smuggling (smugglers)
Matamoros Michoacana Guzman
Arellano-Felix Beltran-Leyva Barrio Azteca
Artistic Assassins Mexicles New Federation
Chimichangas Enchilada (red or green)
Tamales Guacamole Mezcal
Tequila Eric Holder ATF
Fast and Furious Oliver North Enron
Catagory: Terrorism
Al Qaeda (all spellings) Terror Attack
Iraq Afghanistan Iran
Pakistan Agro Environmental
terrorist
Eco terrorism Conventional weapon Target
Weapons grade Dirty bomb Enriched
Nuclear Chemical weapon Biological weapon
Ammonium nitrate Improvised explosive device IED
Abu Sayyaf Hamas FARC
Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia IRA
Irish Republican Army ETA Euskadi ta Askatasuna
Basque Separatists Hezbollah Tamil Tigers
PLF Palestine Liberation Front
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
Car bomb Jihad Koran
Qur'an Sharia Islam
Islamic Muhammad ****e
Shia Sunni Saudi
Saudi Arabia Lebanon Pakistan
Iran Iranian Taliban
Weapons cache Suicide bomber Suicide attack
Suspicious substance AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula)
AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) TTP
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Yemen Pirates
Extremism Somalia Nigeria
Radicals Al-Shabaab Home grown
Plot Nationalist Recruitment
Fundamentalism Islamist Goldman Sachs
Central Banks Bankers Gold
Federal Reserve IRS FBI
Internal Revenue Service CIA NSA
Budget Deficits National Debt War on Terror
Henry Kissinger George Bush Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld War Criminals Neo Conservative
New American Century Saddam Hussein Chemical Weapons
Regime Change Known Unknowns Iraq
Weapons Of Mass Destruction WMD Invasion
Mission Accomplished
Catagory: Weather/Disaster/Emergency
Emergency Hurricane Tornado
Twister Tsunami Earthquake
Tremor Flood Storm
Crest Temblor Extreme weather
Forest fire Brush fire Ice Stranded/Stuck
Help Hail Wildfire
Tsunami Warning Center Magnitude Avalanche
Typhoon Shelter-in-place Disaster
Snow Blizzard Sleet
Mud slide or Mudslide Erosion Power outage
Brown out Warning Watch
Lightening Aid Relief
Closure Interstate Burst
Emergency Broadcast System Katrina New Orleans
Michael Brown FEMA Trailer
Mobile Home Body Bag
Catagory: Cyber Security
Botnet DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
Denial of service Malware Virus
Trojan Keylogger Cyber Command
2600 Spammer Phishing
Rootkit Phreaking Cain and abel (?)
Brute forcing Mysql injection Cyber attack
Cyber terror Hacker China Conficker
Worm Scammers Social media
Facebook Microsoft Windows NT
Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Vista
Windows 7 Windows 8 Bill Gates
Steve Balmer Developers Developers
Developers Developers
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