• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!
  • Welcome to our archives. No new posts are allowed here.

U.S. Funds Chat-Room Surveillance Study

Schweddy

Schweddy

Benevolent Dictator
Administrator
DP Veteran
Joined
May 19, 2004
Messages
13,939
Reaction score
8,396
Location
Texas
Gender
Male
Political Leaning
Libertarian - Right
Source=Yahoo News

TROY, N.Y. - [size=-1] Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms — flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks — are terrorists plotting their next move?
[/size] [size=-1] The government certainly isn't discounting the possibility. It's taking the idea seriously enough to fund a yearlong study on chat room surveillance under an anti-terrorism program. [/size]

[size=-1]A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer science professor hopes to develop mathematical models that can uncover structure within the scattershot traffic of online public forums. [/size]

[size=-1] Chat rooms are the highly popular and freewheeling areas on the Internet where people with self-created nicknames discuss just about anything: teachers, Kafka, cute boys, politics, love, root canal. They are also places where malicious hackers have been known to trade software tools, stolen passwords and credit card numbers. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that 28 million Americans have visited Internet chat rooms.[/size]
Click to expand...
Maybe they will find folks talking about debatepolitics.com. :)


Actually, the question at hand is privacy. In the full story it mentions watching instant messages between two private parties - all in the name of terror.
Are they going to hold EFnet or AOL accountable for the content of the chatroom?
I can smell there this is going and it stinks.
:damn
 
I'm going to throw this in with other ideas such as faked moon-landings, multiple shooters, and tracking devices in our tooth fillings.

There is reference to both chat rooms and forums. For both media, I would suggest that the data is too overwhelming to be of any use to any intelligence gathering agency. A program like this one would not be cost effective on a grand scale, but might be usable when focused on chat rooms or forums that are a known hang-out for terrorists.
 
The internet is not private. So claims of invasion of privacy are BS. Never has been, never will be.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom