Editor's Blog May 30th 2012
WAR OF WORDS
There is a little rumour going around the Internet for a while now, that Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was contracted by the C.I.A whilst still at university to develop Facebook as the largest intelligence-gathering machine known to man.
Think about it, Status update, for Abdul from Waziristan; Abdul ‘Way to go Nazir on your martyrdom whilst sending 3 infidels to hell’ Fahran, Behrang ,Azar and sixteen others LIKE THIS.
Without deploying a single HUMINT asset on the ground you have been able to identify 19 sympathisers for the cause, who will promptly be receiving a Hellfire Missile through your cave entrance, launched from a Reaper Unmanned Drone.
But it doesn’t stop there. Intelligence services throughout the world monitor their own people through social media and online news pages for “Keywords” for signs of terrorist threats. The large list of key words is not set in stone and new words are constantly added.
Some of the more obvious words are Al Qaeda, Dirty Bomb, Attack and Pipe Bomb. There are so many on the list of key words that any innocuous conversation could be misconstrued as Terror Talk.
Surprisingly words like Spammer, Trojan, Cain and Able and Matamoros is also on the US Department of Homeland Security list. And funny to me in buckets, is that the Department of Homeland Security is also a set of words on the list.
You could easily end up with your Facebook page being scrutinised before the intelligence services place a six man wet team on your ass, and you end up being found dead zipped up inside a large sports bag, in a flat in one of the swankier street of London.
As well as talk about the latest attack on infidels, specially trained analysts will also be looking out for natural disasters, drug deals and outbreaks of swine flu. I sleep well at night knowing that there are people that have their eyes and ears open, ensuring your survival and mine and really do not see it as an intrusion of my privacy.
You will only know what I want you to know. For all the other stuff I resort to the age old face to face.
Having used some of the Keywords in this blog I am expecting a knock on the door anytime, only thing is, I am writing this on your computer.
Ed.
