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11/25/2004 07:01 AM
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[GOVT] Security Officials to Spy on Chat Rooms

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Of course, this is only to spy on terrorists...

Security officials to spy on chat rooms

by Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com [US]
November 24th, 2004

The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal.

In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of research projects that the documents indicate were intended to create "new capabilities to combat terrorism through advanced technology." One of those projects is research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., devoted to automated monitoring and profiling of the behavior of chat-room users.

Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for the research grants, according to a contract between the two agencies obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and reviewed by CNET News.com.

NSF program director Leland Jameson said Wednesday the two-year agreement probably will not be renewed for the 2005 fiscal year. "Probably we won´t be working with the CIA anymore at all," Jameson said. "I think that people have moved on to other things."

The NSF grant for chat-room surveillance was reported earlier this year, but without disclosure of the CIA´s role in the project. The NSF-CIA memorandum of understanding says that while the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the fight against terrorism presented U.S. spy agencies with surveillance challenges, existing spy "capabilities can be significantly enhanced with advanced technology."

EPIC director Marc Rotenberg, whose nonprofit group obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said the CIA´s clandestine involvement was worrisome. "The intelligence community is changing the priorities of scientific research in the U.S.," Rotenberg said. "You have to be careful that the National Science Foundation doesn´t become the National Spy Foundation."

A CIA representative would not answer questions, saying the agency´s policy is never to talk about funding. The two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers involved, Bulent Yener and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, did not respond to interview requests.

Their proposal, also disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, received $157,673 from the CIA and NSF. It says: "We propose a system to be deployed in the background of any chat room as a silent listener for eavesdropping...The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden communities and communication patterns in chat rooms without human intervention."

Yener and Krishnamoorthy, both associate professors of computer science, wrote that their research would involve writing a program for "silently listening" to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel and "logging all the messages." One of the oldest and most popular methods for chatting online, IRC attracts hundreds of thousands of users every day. A history written by IRC creator Jarkko Oikarinen said the concept grew out of chat technology for modem-based bulletin boards in the 1980s.

The Yener and Krishnamoorthy proposal says their research will begin Jan. 1, 2005 but does not say which IRC servers will be monitored.

A June 2004 paper they published, also funded by the NSF, described a project that quietly monitored users of the popular Undernet network, which has about 144,000 users and 50,000 channels. In the paper, Yener and Krishnamoorthy predicted their work "could aid (the) intelligence community to eavesdrop in chat rooms, profile chatters and identify hidden groups of chatters in a cost-effective way" and that their future research will focus on identifying "topic-based information."

Al Teich, director of science and policy programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said he does not object to the CIA funding terrorism-related research in general.

"I don´t know about chat-room surveillance, but doing research on issues related to terrorism is certainly legitimate," Teich said. "Whether the CIA ought to be funding research in universities in a clandestine manner is a different issue."


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Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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truth annoys them
DisTuRbED
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Why do u think all the ports that need to be open to surf are for??stoner
Spiritual Freedom
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Ah OH!!! We´re in the deep doo doo here.
Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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makes you think twice about answering all those seemingly innocent questions like:

What´s your favorite TV show

Whats your favorite song

etc................

there is often these kinds of "polls" here at GLP
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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711

those are obvious datatrolls

it´s the positive stuff that they want to cut out

tptb only want negative matters posted

the world is a good place and people are nice when they get to live normally
cia sux
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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>automated monitoring and profiling of the behavior of chat-room users.<

echelon
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If there is a potential problem out here in cyberland I hope somebody is watching- maybe that is why they are considering testing the sanity of Americans- have you not noticed the sick puppies that roam the web? If you have nothing to fear surf on!
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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the sick puppies are trolls and are uniform, which speaks of coordination

now who would have enough $$$ and motive and entree to do that?
cia sux
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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>"You have to be careful that the National Science Foundation doesn´t become the National Spy Foundation."<

too late

there is evidence of use of nsf computers
in transmitting cia beheading videos
Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Maybe the CIA will finally learn something and arrest Bush. It is pretty pitiful that average people are way better investigators than the CIA.
idol harobed
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Keep a low profile...
Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Idol your profile is anything but low- by the way nice cleavage.
Anonymous Coward
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spy on this muther focker

stoner
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Coo-eee, Mr.CIA man hi
VooDoo Chile
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Do Not Shrink from fascism
confront it .
cia sux
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>Al Teich, director of science and policy programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science<
>Teich said. "Whether the CIA ought to be funding research in universities in a clandestine manner is a different issue."<


Teich seems to not know that the the cia has
been funding research in universities in a
clandetine manner for 50 years. Maybe he just forgot.
Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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FUCK THEM AND THIER MONKEY KING.
Anonymous Coward
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Men with small penises should remain below radar; they are considered low profile. May be I should consider having 5 inches lopped off. Mmmmm.
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From wood carpet ion tea flying switch.
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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r-r-r--rr the pigeon is bringing the park bench.The Pope says hello.rr--r--rrrr
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Gandharvas
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Whats the point in a low profile. Signing on to these sites gives you away anyway.dance
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12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Tea trunks oven and running game cinema rock.


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WHO GIVES A SHIT
12/08/2005 10:18 AM
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Security officials my arse pervets more like and seeing as they come from the present BUSH government than what can you expect, good job your not from the Uk because the british government is full of perverts , remember operation ORE that was given from the FBI to the british government , well it contained official names of politicians that were on that list that had downloaded child pornography and of course the BLAIR GOVERNMENT KEPT IT QUIET .
what we need in the uk is a revolution and right now .





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