Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you

[Generic Other]

The bad word list:







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

[hlthe2b]

1. So we can only "safely" speak of inane celebrities in all their 'glorious' superficiality....

[Generic Other]

6. I keep checking to see if I should shut up

Sadly, it seems to be too late...

[Renew Deal]

31. Yes, unless they have listeria

Then no

[reformist2]

2. Phew! I see the words "Britney," "Lindsay," and "Paris Hilton" didn't make the list.

[Generic Other]

13. Just don't call them a "trainwreck"

Actually that wasn't on the list. Too many celebs in rehab would overwhelm even the NSA.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. whew. "tomato" still seems to be OK

[Generic Other]

15. Depends on how you pronounce it

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. Let's call the whole thing off!

[Smilo]

16. For now,

but may be it depends on how you pronounce tomato.....toMAYto or tomAHto!

[Renew Deal]

33. Tomato is OK as long as it's not within three words of "bacteria."

[Savannahmann]

4. For a more complete list please see

Dictonary.com

[Generic Other]

8. doubleplusfunny!

[arely staircase]

5. wouldn't real terrorists or spies use codewords?

nt

[HappyMe]

14. I would think so.

Phones and stuff they use only once or twice.

[Liberal Veteran]

20. You mean like, "The tomato is in the soup"?

[hunter]

25. The carrots are in the pig.

[arely staircase]

26. The weather looks like 27C in Amsterdam, 26C in Budapest, 17C in Nuremberg, 14C in Cuba, 10C in Pau

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/25/french-twitter-wwii-codes

[Dash87]

51. The chare is agenst the wall!

Jon has a long mushtash!

[Generic Other]

28. like that moose and goose quote that police chief read on air

before they found the shooters in DC sleeping at a gas station?

[arely staircase]

32. missed that, could you post?

nt

[Generic Other]

44. I am sorry that was confusing! LOL

I misremembered. In fact, a Chief Moose was forced to read cryptic messages from the DC Snipers: 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose'. After he read this one, the snipers were captured sleeping at a gas station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

[Renew Deal]

35. Ixnay on the codesay

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. And if you avoid using any of these words, that will be suspicious, too.

[longship]

9. Oh boy! Are you in trouble now.

Listen for those footsteps walking up to your door.

"Knock Knock Neo!"

[DontTreadOnMe]

10. How can there be a "bad word" list

I keep hearing that EVERYTHING is being recorded. And if EVERYTHING is recorded, how can they be targeting every single email with a "bad word".

This is just bullshit. More faux outrage to make you scared and paranoid. Its seems to work well on the American public. We can be scared to believe anything... even be scared enough to go to war!

This is a prime example of how easily the public is being manipulated.

[Puzzledtraveller]

11. Maybe the terrorists can all learn to speak and write Klingon.

http://www.kli.org/

[dipsydoodle]

21. Or sinply use UK slang

Kettle = watch etc.

[Generic Other]

30. It had a whole different meaning for OWS

A police tactic, isn't it for corralling protestors?

[dipsydoodle]

38. Different kettle

which describes a shape. Origin of what I said is thought to be "a watched kettle never boils"............its old criminal slang.

[Generic Other]

45. Interesting

very colorful expression.

[arely staircase]

36. an english friend once tried to explain cockney rhyming slang to me

i could never get it.

[dipsydoodle]

49. Non exhaustive list here

http://www.thornton-cleveleys.co.uk/cockney.htm

Inevitable problems arise for occasional users where expressions have been abbreviated / reduced to a single word. For example butchers hook for look reduced to just butchers long ways back leaving the expression for "give us a look" as "give us a butchers".........actually sounds like gissa butchers.

Other oddities occur with context. Pony and trap did mean crap but these days pony simply means rubbish.

[dipsydoodle]

64. Try and understand this

[onehandle]

12. Well they have that article and this thread, thanks to image recognition.

Which converts bitmapped text to real text.

[Generic Other]

40. Then they know we don't approve

of this kind of data collection. I envision my file is mostly full of all the products I have purchased online and a longer list of all the products I am likely to purchase in the future. But somewhere deep in my cyber DNA, beyond the obvious records lie the holy grail -- my high school records -- the ones that have been following me for life...

[dipsydoodle]

17. al capone...... any spelling ?

[Dash87]

58. Are they trying to find his real vault?

I knew it. They just sent Geraldo to a fake one. Obvious CIA op!

Possibly the chair incident too. CIA hitman!?

[arcane1]

18. This appears to be about media/news reports, not emails and phone calls, etc

Though I admittedly didn't read the entire document. Besides, the smart thing to do, if this was a list of online bad words, would be to use every single one of them, every single time you write an email.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED

[TlalocW]

22. Interesting story...

I was friends with a guy who was a math and computer genius. When the internet was just starting to proliferate in the mid-90s, he had been hacking for quite a while. He found... not sure what you want to call it... a hub or location that he couldn't figure out what it was, but he guessed that it was military. So he wrote a program that would compose an email made of words randomly selected from a list like above and have it sent to himself, but he would direct it through that hub. Even then some places had scrubbers that would look for sensitive words in an email. Well, after a day or two of doing that (and apparently setting off various alarms and alerts), he was contacted by them and told in no uncertain terms to knock it off, or they would make things difficult for him.

He quit. He was happy because he was right in his guess.

TlalocW

[tridim]

23. Are you saying that if I send an email with those words the government will send the feds?

Sure sounds like it.

I'll run an experiment if you really want to know and report back when the jack-booted thugs don't show up at my door.

This OP is FUD.

[Generic Other]

43. looks like post 22 is saying that

I am too paranoid to say anything.

[totodeinhere]

78. They probably won't send the feds on the first offense. They don't have the manpower

for that. But you will be put on a watch list much like the lists that Stalin kept. It's a common police state tactic.

[tridim]

81. So you're saying that in this "police state" all of my emails are sniffed for keywords...

...without a warrant, and I will automatically be put on a Stalinesque watch list if I use any of those words in my emails?

I assume you've seen a link outlining the illegal program you have just described, please post it. Thanks.

[totodeinhere]

83. The parallels are obvious. The supporters of our surveillance

state are saying it's legal because it was signed off on by a rubber stamp secret FISA court. And when Stalin was running his police state that was "legal" too. He also had the courts in his hip pocket.

I am not saying that this will "automatically" happen but the potential is certainly there for it to happen. In a country that killed off President Kennedy because he did not toe the line I think that anything is possible.

[tridim]

84. So no link. Thanks.

Just pure FUD.

[totodeinhere]

86. No, you can Google the PRISM the program and get thousands of hits.

Or Google the government's collecting meta data on it's citizens and you will get a lot of hits. It has been well established that this is happening and what I am saying is my own interpretation of that information. Charles Bolden has conformed this in testimony before Congress. You can also Google the transcript of his remarks if you wish.

[Demo_Chris]

24. They are spying on you whether you use these words or not. nt

[Auggie]

27. Everybody needs to use these words, and frequently ...

Overwhelm them with BILLIONS and BILLIONS of posts and e-mails until the words virtually lose their meaning.

[NightWatcher]

34. Have they cracked igpay atinlay yet?

[Generic Other]

46. They had the high school drop-out working on it

A few more days...

[davidn3600]

37. Well...i think it is safe to assume everyone on DU is under surveillance

[Frustratedlady]

39. I should think they would have added pressure cooker.

Maybe I missed it?

[rhett o rick]

47. I am sure it's on their list and now you just said it. nm

[Duer 157099]

41. Help?

I'm out of Crest and need to go to Target to get more!

Maybe that isn't a Smart Response?

[Dash87]

56. I had subway for lunch!

[Generic Other]

48. What did they do to Kenny?

[Jamastiene]

52. I'm definitely being watched then.

I talk about the weather all the time, almost on a daily basis. I don't get why the weather terms are on that list though. Can anyone explain why they would monitor people who use weather terminology?

[Generic Other]

69. Because you might be blaming an oil company

for causing global warming.

[Orrex]

53. I was going to ship a bin laden with fresh fruit, but not now.

Screw that nonsense!

[LadyHawkAZ]

54. Dammit!

I text about infrastructure security and maritime domain awareness to everyone I know, all the time!

[Apophis]

55. How about the government should quit spying on us.

I will not allow myself to be censored.

[ZombieHorde]

57. People who play video games must be constantly setting off their "alarms." nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

59. Wow, I must be real scary

In the course of the day I will use at least some of them...and hazmat enters often.

I feel safer already.

[apples and oranges]

60. Then it's safe to assume that all of us are being watched

I can't imagine anyone above the age of 21 avoiding all of those words while online.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

61. There were only 7 you couldn't use on TV.

[dipsydoodle]

62. So if you're in bed with flu

its safer to say I'm in bed with Flo.

[Generic Other]

68. Not Flo!

[JPZenger]

63. .... and don't write your emails in Farsi

I can't imagine an actual terrorist using most of those words

[Matariki]

65. Maybe it's time to start communicating via .gifs and .jpgs

[JDPriestly]

66. Jefferson and Madison speak to us.

Thomas Jefferson on Educating the People
Collected by: Reid Cornwell
The Center for Internet Research (TCFIR)
http:/tcfir.org

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our
political and religious freedom.
--Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1810.

http://tcfir.org/opinion/Thomas%20Jefferson%20on%20Educating%20the%20People.pdf

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_madison.html

These were men who lived through the American Revolution and who were to survive the War of 1812. They knew danger, yet Madison WROTE the Bill of Rights or much of it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

67. I'll take one from Column A, two from Column B, and one from Column C.

What do I win?

Tell him what he's won, Johnny...

You've won an all-expense-paid trip to beautiful GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA! (Audience applauds.)

I can't see any one of these words marking you for a visit from Agent Mike (hi, Mike! ). Maybe if you manage to work ten or more into the same sentence...?

[BarbaRosa]

70. George Carlin had it easy,

he only had seven words to worry about.

[William769]

71. Uh oh, I'm in trouble on several counts.

Oh well, such is life.

[zonkers]

72. This list is utter bullshit. So is the Daily Mail.

[felix_numinous]

73. Well a terraist who can't spell

will slip through the noose! Teabaggers are off the hook, see how that works?

[Generic Other]

74. They anticipate the bad spelling on google

so probably they will catch you here too.

[felix_numinous]

75. Good point

but I'm thinking there are ways around this data mining.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

76. I guess we're all in trouble...

Terror! Bacteria! Forest fire! China! Power outage!

Come and get me, Agent Mike.

[totodeinhere]

77. It has got to the point where we have to watch what we say in fear of the

government going after us. For all I know they are flagging me for saying this. It's getting to be no different from living in East Germany in the 1960's. It really sucks living in a police state but that is what we have.

[Shrike47]

79. Buffy, bridge is cancelled because Angel has flu symptoms!

Do I hear a knock at the door?

[SamKnause]

80. Scary words

Too late.

I have already crossed that bridge thousands of times.

I have probably been flagged by every government data base in the U.S., and all the ones they control in foreign countries.

I tend to speak out for Liberty and Justice.

My government really frowns on that.

How is that insider trading working out for all you DC politicians and your staff ?

[JackRiddler]

82. With all due respect: Fuck the government...

whether UK or US, & Fuck the Daily Mail and its word list.

Fuck the complaisant mentality. We are free human beings and we have an inalienable human right to speech without monitoring by the government or any other authority. Laws cannot take away this right. Our rights are higher laws, they are constitutional.

If you don't want the government spying on you, get out in the streets in your millions and shut down the entrances to the spying agencies.

If you don't want the government spying on you, support and seek to reward the whistleblowers who have brought out some of the truth at great personal sacrifice, like Manning and Snowden.

If you are a free human being,

USE ALL OF THESE WORDS AS YOU LIKE ALL THE TIME.

[WeekendWarrior]

85. I'm a writer, so I use and/or look-up most of these.

A hazard of the profession. But you know what? I don't give a damn.

Anyone who ever assumed we have privacy online is an idiot. And it isn't just the government that's spying on us. There are entire businesses built around knowing our likes, dislikes, searches, etc.

What people don't seem to understand is that the majority of this stuff is completely ANONYMOUS. It only becomes attached to names when the flow of metadata goes from random to suspicious. I honestly believe it's the fundamental lack of understanding about how technology works that has people creating ridiculous "spying" scenarios.

All they're looking for are data patterns. And if they weren't, and we got attacked because of it, the very same people who are complaining now would be screaming, "Why didn't the government protect us?"

[treestar]

87. that would bring up another issue

Those words are too obvious. Shouldn't it be more sophisticated than that?

[Quantess]

88. Too late. I can't undo what's already done.

NSA has wasted some of their time on me, possibly. If so they are idiots, because I lead a pedestrian life.