U.S. Military to Patrol Internet

[lonestarnot]

http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/30/Analysis_US_military_to_patrol_Internet/UPI-83401214841029/


30 Jun 2008 The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. In a solicitation posted on the Web last week, the U.S. Army's Fifth Signal Command said it was looking for a contractor to provide "Internet awareness services" to support "force protection" -- the term of art for the security of U.S. military installations and personnel. "The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating to selected Internet domains," says the solicitation. The solicitation says the successful contractor will "analyze various Web pages, chat rooms, blogs and other Internet domains to aggregate and assess data of interest."

Sorry if this is old. From CLG 7/9/08, and I don't remember seeing anything here about it.

[snot]

1. k&r'd

[Hugabear]

2. I'm glad to see this. Terrorists are always trying to blow up the Internet.

[robinlynne]

3. I'm sure the terrorists will put all their plans on their websites....

Yep, that's the right place to look...

[lonestarnot]

4. LOL.

What's to stop some bonehead from calling you a terrorist or me or for that matter any poster at DU.

[robinlynne]

5. oh I know. IT's just the very idea that this adminsistration LETS BIn Laden walk into

Pakistan, then sends homeland security over and over again to Hawaii for conferences, and the military is going to look for terra on the internets....?
bizarro world.

[lonestarnot]

7. Gotsta have mo wo somewhere now.

[sentelle]

57. how we all seem to forget.

Per the USA-Patriot act, the attorney general, or the POTUS have the ability to define who is a terrorist.

This means, either one can write on paper that DU (or the Democratic Party for that matter) has been designated as a terrorist org, and it becomes legal to wire tap, read email, examine your ISP's records, your library records, your bank accounts, your employment history, even seize your computer. This is all 100% legal.

Its amazing how people can talk about how the democrats are possibly being blackmailed, without remembering that they allowed it to happen, legally.

[Posteritatis]

23. Now I'm picturing Facebook invites to insurgent attack events. (nt)

[Canuckistanian]

30. www.evildoers.com

Or www.wehateyouforyourfreedoms.org

[robinlynne]

31. oh I love the second name. right on.

[timtom]

60. When's the last time you were there?

Both links now dead.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. Sure, like agent Mike won't get the contract renewed or something.

[lonestarnot]

8. What our military and contractors can't work together side by side and take clean showers or have

clean drinking water at the same time? And on edit: Doesn't Bev Harris have Agent Mike all tied up with that black box voting deal?

[John Q. Citizen]

9. And you know how he loves to be tied up and forced to reveal classified info.

[Generic Other]

20. Agent Mike turned...she's on their hit list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0M9G9q0lc

[lonestarnot]

25. My question is

with the watchers watching the watchers who's left watching the watchers?

[liberalla]

10. "analyze various Web pages, chat rooms, blogs and other...

Internet domains to aggregate and assess data of interest."

I don't like it but I thought they were doing this already.

[BalancedGoat]

11. Probably.

But why do it yourself when you can use taxpayers' money to pay someone else to do it for you?

[lostnfound]

22. I would have thought the CIA or NSA etc not the Army

My sense -- which could be wrong -- is that this could introduce a new level of intolerance for dissent.
I.e., there's a difference between attempts to identify and stop those who are actually organizing actions vs enforcing a ban on all dissent.
The inability of the administration to distinguish between "terrorism" and anti-globalization/pro-labor/pro-environmental movements has been alarming and irritating; but will the net be cast even wider now, to encompass even simpler forms of political dissent?

[newmajority]

52. They definitely are.

My firewall was getting a lot of hits from military domains for a while, and they weren't sending me recruiting announcements.

[orleans]

12. 5th rec. maybe if the soldiers did it themselves they'd be a lot safer

patrolling the internet than what they are made to patrol now.

[OneBlueSky]

13. forget "Hey, Agent Mike" . . . now it's "What's up, Sgt. Bilko?" . . . n/t

[barbtries]

14. funny how the title says it's the military

and the story says it's a private firm. hey big brother, i want a revolution just like the revolution my forefathers had. you know, the one that culminated in the declaration of independence, the constitution, and the bill of rights.

patrol me you motherfuckers. i have a blog. i'm sure DU will be high on the list and i'm here all the time speaking my mind and reading and learning about the daily outrages associated with the regime currently in power in the USA. why aren't their crimes being patrolled?

notice how it includes "antipathy, unrest" - jeezus keerist there is "antipathy, unrest" everywhere. "data of interest" - fuck them. fuck them, fuck them, fuck them.

[Trillo]

48. One of the advantages of privitizing is avoiding scrutiny.

Military must follow rules.

Private corporations seem to flaunt rules as an everyday occurance, then if and when they're caught breaking them, they purchase new laws. (telecom immunity for a recent example)

I keep thinking of Total Information Awareness.

[Raksha]

51. "Antipathy, unrest"? Are you serious?

Re notice how it includes "antipathy, unrest" - jeezus keerist there is "antipathy, unrest" everywhere.

Yup, that's pretty much the whole freakin' country! Is EVERYONE who disapproves of Bush a "subversive" now? That's close to 80% of the population! So is the remaining 20% of hardcore kool-aid driners going to watch the other 80% of us, like in the old Soviet Union?

Agent Mike--or is it Sgt. Mike now?--we all KNOW what happened to the old Soviet Union. Just a friendly little reminder, doncha know.

[midnight]

15. Sounds like they need more tools. I hope they negotiated this

in there FISA bill.

[formercia]

16. Looking for a contractor to do what would otherwise be illegal

for the military to do themselves.

Bin LaLa page of upcoming events, yeah, sure.

Let me explain how the game works in the real world. You want to illegally monitor US citizens but you can't get funding for that blatantly obvious program, so you come up with a bogus program, something with the word 'terrorist' in the title to promote a veneer of legality. Once you have the money appropriated and the personnel allocated, you cancel the original project as undoable and use the resourced for your original intended goal.

This is not an imaginary scenario, but I have personally seen it done with 'black' programs to disguise the destination of funding.

Even in the imaginary world of movie land, this game is played out.

[file83]

26. How can it be legal for a Corporation to violate our constitutional rights?

I don't get it.

The identity of the criminal shouldn't alter the determination of whether the action is a crime or not, should it?

[formercia]

33. Companies collect private information on citizens

and sell the databases to the government, yet if the government collected that information, it would be illegal. Some laws, such as the Hatch Act does not apply to contractors.

The Administration is required to save electronic communications, but using a contractor that periodically purges the private servers where the emails were stored, provides a cutout to circumvent the law.

I expect that many examples will come to light showing how Bush gang attempted to get around laws by using private contractors and political operatives as cutouts.

[TonyClifton]

54. How does surfing the net violate your rights?

Some people on here (you) are so hysterical and rediculous

[file83]

58. Strawman much?

Dear troll,

I would appreciate it if you could point to, specifically, with a hyperlink, and quotes, where I ever said that surfing the net was a violation of my rights.

If you could do that, I'll PayPal you $1000.

Longtime DU member,
file83

[babylonsister]

17. Where can we sign up? I'd point the US military to pertinent sites. nt

[JDPriestly]

42. They should look at Free Republic and the National Rifle Association

sites first. That is where the violent types congregate.

DU is a waste of time if they are looking for terrorists. The most violent act we DUers perform is hitting our computer keyboard a bit too hard from time to time. (The letters have worn off some of my keys, so I guess I had better restrain myself a bit.) Oh, I did attack some weeds in my garden this afternoon, not to mention the bulbs I pulled up for replanting next fall.

I also attempted to get rid of some ants that invaded my house a couple of weeks ago. I've been about as successful in my personal battle with the ants as Bush has been in Iraq -- not very.

[Vickers]

18. Another way to funnel money to their contractor buddies.

Follow the money.

[windoe]

19. Whose side are you on anyway?

A question for all lurkers. You actually believe it is American citizens who need to be watched, for saying the wrong words or discussing possibilities-- or should you be watching people responsible for mass murder, treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity and the Earth? If you have children, what kind of future do you envision, where American citizens do not trust each other?

You have to make a living, but you are allied against your own neighbors and friends, not anyone here or anywhere on the most popular blogs or websites will you ever come across the types of sociopaths you will easily find in plain sight in the places of power in this country.

This country is turning upside down, with the criminals in charge and innocent people being made to feel as if they are the guilty ones. We can stop this now, if everyone, including lurkers, decide not to turn against innocent Americans in any way.

[lonestarnot]

24. Here here!

So freakin' creepy.

[undeterred]

21. They're going to pour oil into the 'series of tubes' and muck it up.

[readmoreoften]

43. That'd be a PR disaster. Oil is valuable. They'll pour anthrax into the tubes. Homing anthrax.

Homing anthrax will recognize a terrorist poster by the aggressiveness of his or her keystrokes.

[Individualist]

27. "antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating to selected Internet domains,"

There's the real purpose.

[pleah]

28. K&R They should be wire tapping and data mining the White House.

If they want to find the real terrorist.

[TroubleMan]

29. I can see some new private from the Bible belt assigned to patrol 4chan.

LOL - he'll never want to use the internet again.

[dysfunctional press]

32. i hope the military plans on protecting our boys from VIEDS -virtual improvised explosive devices...

maybe they could pay halliburton and blackwater to handle security for that aspect of the mission.

[pepperbear]

34. oh,. THIS is what Jack Bauer would do. n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

35. Keyboard Commandos, Uncle Sam wants you!!

I can see their inboxes being flooded by freepers on day one, and the staff quitting. :rofl:

[crimsonblue]

36. the NSA already does this.

dumbass military retards are too stupid to know that, though.

[EbenezerMcIntosh]

37. This is not a military function.

It is the function of fucking fascists, though. What's the difference, now?

[Canuckistanian]

44. It is now - look at the new Air Force logo

[readmoreoften]

46. Very interesting

[barbtries]

55. eek

i just watched "1984" for the first time yesterday. creepy logo, creepy slogan. that's not my air force. is that real?

[IsItJustMe]

38. Gives new meaning to the phrase, UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU. This country is going down the tubes fast.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

39. I think I will start a company and bid.

I will call it...

STASI.

It seems appropriate enough and I don't think it's taken.

[FatDave]

40. Is this illegal yet?

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[upi402]

41. is that not pretty good privacy?

me thinks

[readmoreoften]

45. ..terrorist attacks OR OTHER HOSTILE ACTIVITY on the web

or other hostile activity
or other hostile activity
or other hostile activity
or other hostile activity
or other hostile activity
or other hostile activity


Like what? Strikes? EFFECTIVE protests that do more than assuage aggression and alleviate guilt?

[cliffordu]

47. Kand R

[Raksha]

49. Let's look on the bright side. It's WAY cheaper to patrol the Internet.

You don't have to worry about providing the troops with body armor that actually protects them, or pay for treating them for PTSD and exposure to depleted uranium when they get home...IF they get home.

[Fox Mulder]

50. Is it Fascism yet?

[bdamomma]

61. is it pitchforks and torches time yet?

[skyounkin]

53. Hmmmmmm

Maybe I should change my legal name to Albert Kada. It would be a neat way to meet new people.

[barbtries]

56. then

i can call you al?

[Blue_Tires]

59. i must be a prime suspect -- i've slaughtered Navy SEALS

British SAS, French GIGN and German GSG-9 while playing Counter-Strike...

Arctic Avengers 4 LYFE