Also, why doesn't anyone ever play red team by build a completely fictional terror cadre with all the necessary connections on a social network site (not going to name any names for who is teh obvious candidate) and then watch the results. Depends on the type of attack, but it would be interesting to see how the agency attempts to track/arrest persons who aren't real.
Of course how to build the Redteam enterprise while steering clear of being found out, leaving a digital path that can be traced back to you. No doubt the secfor would attempt to drop the hammer on you for "endangering natsec" and the like. I can hear their histrionics now...
but anyways, as always let me know what you think. Leave comments in the boxs below why don't ya?
(H) FBI to build software to monitor social media
The U.S. government is requesting proposals for the development of a software system that can mine social media.
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies are looking to use it to anticipate everything from terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings by sifting through billions of posts from Twitter and other social networks.
The proposals already have raised privacy concerns among advocates who worry that such monitoring efforts could have a chilling effect on users. The FBI says the proposed system would only monitor publicly available information. WTOL.com
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Hundreds of intelligence analysts already sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts to track events such as the Arab Spring. But in a formal notice to potential contractors, the FBI recently outlined its desire for a digital tool to scan the entire universe of social media - more data than humans could ever crunch. Boston Globe
The Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence also have solicited the private sector for ways to automate the process of identifying emerging threats and upheavals using the billions of posts people around the world share every day. NY Times
Ginger McCall, director of the open government project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center In Washington, D.C., said the FBI has no business monitoring legitimate free speech without a narrow, targeted law enforcement purpose. AP
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