[liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Lina Srivastava lina at linasrivastava.com
Tue Jun 18 08:22:17 PDT 2013


Well, real men don't eat quiche, so that one makes sense.
But "Pixar"?
I'm definitely flagged.

Is there a link to this somewhere?



On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Joss Wright <
joss-liberationtech at pseudonymity.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:59:08AM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote:
> > From: Khannea Suntzu <khannea.suntzu at gmail.com>
> >
> > This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the
> > NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an
> > email.
> >
> > You may want to peruse this entire list yourself, but here are some of
> > our favourites that stick out:
> >
> > ·         dictionary
> >
> > ·         sweeping
> >
> > ·         ionosphere
> >
> > ·         military intelligence
> >
> > ·         Steve Case
> >
> > ·         Scully
>
> The ones that stick out more for me are: "c", "a", "b", "d", and "the".
>
> Oh, and "Badger". And "Quiche".
>
> Joss
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