Hello N.S.A.-- The List, Alphabetized

The original list appeared with categories.  This list is alphabetized.  I suspect that the list that has been published was not a completed list because the first letter of every word appearing after the "Enter" key had been hit was capitalized.  In the original list "agriculture" appeared as "Agriculture," "bridge" was "Bridge," "car bomb" read as "Car bomb" and so forth.  The simplest explanation is that the program was set to capitalize the first letter of the first word on each line and this wasn't corrected in the settings.  I suspect that the list that has been published is a draft. The possibility exists that the list was intended to have more words on it-- or that there is in existence a finished list which may indeed have more words on it.

It is possible that in transposing the list, I may have erased or neglected to type some words.  That would be my error alone and I regret it if such an error in fact occurred.  

One "solution" that a buddy of mine suggested was "Don't use any of the list words in any e-mails."  I consider that workaround to be impractical.  Attempting to implement such a strategy means that folks would not be able to use certain medical words, geographical locations, weather descriptors, or talk about recovery from narcotics in their correspondence.  

Although I found many of the target words to be an obvious choice, there were a few whose inclusion gave me pause-- "artistic", "Red Cross", and "wave".  The mystery phrase is "Basque separatists."  I was saddened to see "2600" and "phreaking" included as worthy of suspicion.  The problems that the magazine 2600 has had with authorities in the past have been extensive and legendary.  The phone phreakers were the original hackers [back in the days when Ma Bell was still a conglomerate].  I have known and loved a few of them in my past.  

Without further ado, here then is The List, alphabetized:  

2600
+ H1N1

Abu Sayyaf 

Afghanistan
agent
agriculture
agro
aid
air marshal
airplane (and derivatives)
airport
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
Al-Shabaab 
Al Qaeda (all spellings)
Ammonium nitrate
AMTRAK 
anthrax
antiviral
AQAP (AL Qaeda ArabianPeninsula)
AQIM (Al Qaeda in theIslamic Maghreb)
Arellano-FelixBeltran-Leyva
artistic
assassination
assassins
attack 
authorities
avalanche
avian flu
Azteca

bacteria
barrio
BART
Basque separatists
biological
biological infection (or event)
biological weapon
black out
blister agent
blizzard
body scanner 
bomb (squad or threat)
border
Border Patrol
botnet
bridge
brown out 
brush fire
brute force / brute forcing
burn
burst
bust

Cain and Abel
Calderon
cancelled
car bomb
cartel
Cartel de Golfo 

center 
Center for Disease Control(CDC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
chemical
chemical agent
chemical burn
chemical fire
chemical spill
chemical weapon
China
CIKR (Critical Infrastructure& Key Resources)
Ciudad 

closure
cloud plume
Coast Guard (USCG)
cocaine
collapse
Colombia 

command
communications infrastructure
computer 
Conficker Worm
consular
consulate
contamination
conventional weapon 

cops
crash
crest
critical infrastructure
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
cyber
cyber attack
cyber security
cyber terror

DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
deaths
decapitated
delays
Denial of Service / denial of service
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
dirty bomb 

disaster  
disaster assistance
disaster management
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)
DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) 

dock
domestic
domestic security
drill
drug 
Drug Administration (FDA)
drug cartel
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
drug trade
drug war 

earthquake
ebola
e. coli  
eco terrorism
electrical failure or outage
El Paso
emergency
Emergency Broadcast System (EBS)
emergency landing
emergency management
emergency response
enriched
environmental terrorist
epidemic
erosion
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
evacuation
execution
exercise 
explosion or explosive
exposure
extreme weather 
extremism

facility
FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia)
Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
first responder
flood
food poisoning
Foot and Mouth (FMD)
forest fire 
Fort Hancock
fundamentalism
Fusion Center

gang
gangs
gas
grid 
Gulf Cartel
gunfight
Guzman

H1N1
H5N1
hacker
hail
Hamas
hazardous
hazardous material
Hazmat 

HAZMAT & Nuclear
health concern
help
heroin
Hezbollah
home grown
Homeland Defense
Homeland Security
hostage
human to animal
human to humanhurricane

ice
illegal immigrants
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Improvised Explosive Device, IED 
incident
industrial spill
infection
influenza
infrastructure
infrastructure security
initiative
interstate
Iran
Iraq
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
Islamist

jihad
Juarez

keylogger 
kidnap

lab 
laboratory
La Familia
law enforcement
leak
lightening
listeria
lockdown
looting
Los Zetas

malware
magnitude
Mara
marijuana
Maritime Domain Awareness(MDA)
MARTA
Matamoros
meth
methamphetamine
meth lab
Metro
Mexican Army
Mexicles 
Mexico
Michoacana
militia
mitigation
MS13 or MS-13
mud slide or mudslide
mutation
my sql injection
my SQL injection

narco banners
narcos
narcotic
national
National Guard
nationalist
national infrastructure
National Operations Center (NOC)
national preparedness
national security
NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)  
nerve agent
New Federation
Nigeria
Nogales
North Korea
Norvo Virus
nuclear
nuclear detention
nuclear facility
nuclear threat
Nuevo Leon 

organized crime
outbreak

Pakistan
pandemic
phishing
phreaking
pipe bomb
pirates 
plague
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) 

plot 
police
pork
port
Port Authority
powder (white)
power 
power lines 
power outage
prevention
Public Health
 
quarantine

radiation
radicals
radioactive
recall
recovery
recruitment
Red Cross
relief  
resistant
response
Reynosa
Reyosa
ricin
riot
rootkit

salmonella
salvatrucha
San Diego 
sarin
scammers
Secret Service (USSS)
Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
security
security breach
service disruption 
shelter-in-place
shooting
shootout
shots fired
sick 
Sinaloa
sleet
small pox
smart
smuggling (smugglers)
snow
social media
Somalia
Sonora
southwest
southwest border violence
spammer
spillover
SQL
SQL Injection
standoff 
state of emergency
storm
strain
stranded/stuck 

subway  
suicide attack
suicide bomber
suspicious device
suspicious package
suspicious substance
SWAT Screening 
swine
symptoms

Taliban
Tamaulipas
Tamiflu 
Tamil Tigers
target
task force
telecommunications
temblor
terror
terrorism
threat
Tijuana
tornado
Torreon
toxic
trafficking
transportation 

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
tremor 

trojan
tsunami 
TTP (Tehrik-i-TalibanPakistan)
tuberculosis (TB)
Tucson
twister
typhoon

United Nations (UN)
U.S.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
 
vaccine
violence
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever 
virus


warning
watch
water/air borne
wave
weapons cache
weapons grade
wildfire
World Health Organization(WHO) /and its' components
WMATA

Yemen
Yuma

What If Ed Snowden Isn't Who He Says He Is: An Opinion

     The following post is composed of my opinions.  My opinions may be right, wrong, or somewhere in-between, but they are my opinions.  F.Y.I., I am not a dem lib and I have not been for quite some time now. 


     I think Ed Snowden is who he says he is.  I do not believe that he is an operative working for the C.I.A.  I do believe that he exists.  Yes, people can and do change their viewpoints on a variety of issues and sometimes a bit dramatically throughout the years.  That Ed Snowden was against leaking stuff a couple of years ago [according to information given to Ars Technica by folks who saved their typed conversations with Ed Snowden] really doesn't bother me in the least.  Furthermore, there is a real danger in labeling someone as having narcissistic-like tendencies sight unseen, especially when this label is based on media reports and opinions of various people who did not professionally evaluate Ed Snowden.  In short, I do not believe that there is evidence for that particular claim.  I don't think he exposed the leaks because he wanted to be in the spotlight.  I think Ed Snowden's motives lie within the realm of realizing that what is happening within the N.S.A. is incorrect.  

     I believe there is some amount of misinformation being fed to us-- intentionally or otherwise-- by the media.  One example is the reports I read at first did not admit that Ed Snowden could stay in the transit area of the Russian airport without a three day visa.  The initial reports admitted that he did not have a three day visa but not that he would only need such a document in order to leave the transit area of the airport.  Another example is the idea that both China and Russia have harvested [interviewed] Ed Snowden in hopes of gaining information from him or offering him work as their spy or something like that.  I don't believe that has happened.

I cannot understand:
1.  why the N.S.A. cannot locate Ed Snowden.
2.  why Congress isn't asking the N.S.A. some very pointed questions about exactly how it is that Ed Snowden was able to download some heavy duty stuff onto a thumb-drive.  All in a day's work, is it?
3.  why Obama and other politicos think that China; and now Russia, should just willingly deport Ed Snowden just because the American government and its' various shadow organizations want them to.
4.  why people assume that Ed Snowden must be at a Russian airport in the transit zone just because we are told that is where he is.   
5.  why some country doesn't just jump up and say "Come over here, Ed.  Stay with us."  Considering the circumstances, Ed Snowden needs immediate protection and immediate citizenship someplace else.
6.  why the conversation has centered around that bad boy hacker Ed Snowden instead of what the N.S.A. is doing.
7.  why the conversation has centered around that bad boy hacker Ed Snowden instead of why the N.S.A. appears to be able to dictate its' own doings without any real oversight from any other organization or from Congress or frigging anybody.
8.  why people are at all surprised by the recent revelations of exactly how deeply the N.S.A. is into monitoring all of us here and everyone in the whole world.
9.  why there is not more in the news about Boundless Informant.

 
Furthermore, the definition of a "terrorist" needs to be refined a bit.  I may be wrong but at least to me, it appears that:
1.  people who support or are in Anonymous are considered to be friends of terrorists or terrorists.  
2.  people who use encryption are considered to be suspect.
3.  people who use V.P.N.s or TOR are considered to have some kind of inherent criminal intent.


Problem #1:  I thought things were a bit odd last year and earlier this year when I realized that FedBook wanted our wallet names and wallet info [picture that!], when Google and Twitter and Yahoo and AOL wanted our cell phone numbers in order to open an e-mail account, when Google suddenly changed their TOS to be all inclusive when using any Google service, when the push was on to link various accounts together.  I distinctly remember the days before Google transformed into a Big Brother sort of outfit. 

Partial solution:  Don't use Fedbook.  No new e-mail accounts.  Search for an email account with a company that does not have dot com or dot net or dot biz after their name.  Use e-mail minimally and certainly not for communication purposes.
Drastic solution:  Get off of the internet entirely.  [For now, I will take my chances]. 
 
Problem #2:  I first suspected something was wrong this year when suddenly Google appeared to be vomiting on my searches when my computer was shielded under a proxy.

Solution:  Use another search engine.

Problem #3:  I first noticed something was wrong this year when suddenly Yahoo would not show up in a search engine when behind a proxy.

Solution:  Use another search engine. 

Problem #4: Obummer has offered "reassurance" that no one is listening in on our phone calls.

Solution:  Figure that A.I. bots which have been scripted to recognize certain code words are listening in on phone calls. 

Problem #5:  It is hard to know who is telling the truth and who is spinning a yarn.

Solution:  Carefully evaluate the evidence from a variety of source material.  Take nothing at face value.  

radical sapphoq says:  We the People have a right to know what is going on when a powerful shadowly agency is performing broadly based Big Data collections.  So much info has been collected and is being collected that a facility in Utah is being built to house it in.  Utah is an ideal location for such a facility to be built because a large number of National Guard recruits originate in Utah.
 
When an agency or organization [like the N.S.A.] is given carte blanche to do as it will with little to no meaningful oversight, a distinct possibility of abuse of power exists.  Meta-data is not innocuous.  If it were, the N.S.A. would not be interested in organizing meta-data through Boundless Informant. 

I like my privacy-- even though I in fact "have nothing to hide."  I am aware that if someone or some agency is hunting for something to report, the information will be found or manufactured or spun to suit the purposes of said person or agency.  Drama begets drama.  If the job order says "Find something," then something will be found.  I've learned that from investigations work.   

I prefer some transparency in my government to lies.  Certainly I prefer a smaller non-interfering (in my personal life or other peoples' personal lives) government to this stuff that is going on right now.  What the N.S.A. is doing under the guise of offering us security is unacceptable to me.  Security is not the opposite of privacy.