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Re: [LUG] OT surveillance

 

On 27/06/13 10:21, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> I just remembered this:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:09 PM, bad apple wrote:
>> (I wish they'd at least come clean and GHCQ would just tell us whatever
>> cool name they've got for it, like "funcrusher plus" or something, it
>> would make referring to it a lot easier)
> Isn't it called Tempora?
>
> Martijn.
>

Ah yes, you're right of course... what a crappy name. Still, I suppose
it's better than "socmint":

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/socmint

Was rather disappointed to see that my old workplace (although not the
same part - I was in the purely medical campus, in an actual hospital)
is offering courses on OSINT and SOCMINT, so that you too can become a
half-assed "intelligence agent". You have to wonder not just about
judicial oversight but the actual competence of your average spook these
days, I remember what even the medical post-grad students were like at
Kings and they were the good ones. Scanning through their course PDF
there are gems like a 5 day introduction to statistics in SPSS: I mean,
really? Some little gobshite with 5 days of SPSS training let loose to
number crunch datasets and put people on watchlists afterwards? What a
fantastic idea! What could possibly go wrong...

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/kpi/icsa/Training.aspx

I must say that the 21st century is so far falling somewhat short of my
expectations. Disappointing.

Regards

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