This Leak will give you proof that CIA, Stratfor and you can easy imagine other Shadow Surveillance Agencys are monitoring the world wide web social medias.
There was an AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook Article
They are talking about in that following leaked EMails.
Have suspected this, but provides an idea of the scope of the
surveillance.CIA Open Source Center in charge of following these social websites. Used
to provide a quick sweep of reaction to world events. Have several
hundred analysts. Follow about 5 million tweets a day. The listed
examples were to the death of UBL, social responses to Obama’s Middle East
speech. Started to use this media after the Green Revo. in Iran and how
Twitter impacted that. Thought that they would have started monitoring
these sites in a systematic way before that.
So what we all know and what we all thought before is now leaked and you have it black and white on your screen right now you as are reading this blogpost.
So there are three Points in that EMail and on two of those I want to shine some light on.
3 things
1. Their job is very very similar to ours with better resources and
different requirements
2. Note how they use, caveat, and compare their monitoring of social media
3. There is no organized monitoring of US domestic social media
1. Their job is very very similar to ours with better resources and
different requirements
so at the first point Stratfor (SF) says that they are monitoring the social media too like the CIA but the CIA has more massive Computers and resources than SF and different requirements. The CIA Open Source Center was created after the attacks of 9/11 for a better state of the art surveillance of citizens and terrorist activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Center
The OSC Leader at the moment is Douglas Naquin. you can imagine that within a more and more networked world through programs like facebook and twitter (spying machines) the resources must have been increased rapidly because we live in a new century of informations.
3. There is no organized monitoring of US domestic social media
this point I would call today a fail. because we know now that the NSA is building a huge Spy Center in USA Utah you can see and hear about this on Jacob Applebaums 29C3 keynote. So it is important to note that not only the CIA OSC, and Stratfor are monitoring Facebook and Twitter or other social medias – also The NSA and for sure Germanys BND and other surveillance Agencys are up into the great spying machine called the internet. and the social media networks are their most powerful tools.
watch full or start at 11:23.
the mail goes on with an important note of an agent.
3. Don’t bet on it. It’s just better hidden
So he claims to be that point 3 is not valid and the monitoring is just better hidden. this is an important note because it is NOT only the CIAs open source center who is monitoring all that social media networks there is more hidden surveillance in the state and all around the internet.
No, not OSC
From: Sean Noonan <sean.noonan@stratfor.com>
Reply-To: <sean.noonan@stratfor.com>, CT AOR <ct@stratfor.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:50:07 +0000
To: CT AOR <ct@stratfor.com>
Subject: Re: [CT] US/SECURITY – AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter,
By the CIA OSC?
So what are those important points to know, what can you do to get not in the view of spys and secret agents. well this is way difficult to say. at first try to be anonymous as possible if you don´t want to get “”visited”” by unknown.
use often nicknames on the web. try things like the tor browser and use unix / Linux systems for a better control of your system. you can use VPN and create different mail accounts.
at least it is up to all of you with whom do you talk and what do you share – do you need your real name in facebook? do you need to post pictures of your friends or the latest party? think before posting. what is important what do you need to say and what is to much private information?
I am sure if someone would stay in your house or appartment watching you all the time face 2 face you do not know him and he is not much talking to you. you wouldn´t share or your personal stuff with him. you would ask him to leave.
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http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,14620.0.html
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