Here is a big bag of absurd to start off your week.
From Mail Online:
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’.
Here is the DHS doc:
Analyst Desktop Binder_REDACTED
They have CNN listed a “credible” source for corroboration. I think I just got dumber.
Source: Article Link
UPDATE: Added a link to the .pdf version of the DHS resource.
(Image used under CC from pietroizzo)
All the false-positives from the innocent words must be how they justify asking for a bigger budged.
Need more agents to monitor these people talking about “Snow”!