Army Web Risk Assessment Cell - Army Watches Sites

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U.S. Military Monitors Soldiers Blogs, Web Sites
October 31, 2006,
By www.andnetwork .com

A Virginia-based operation, the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, monitors official and unofficial blogs and other Web sites for anything that may compromise security. The team scans for official documents, personal contact information and pictures of weapons or entrances to camps.

The Army will not disclose the methods or tools being used to find and monitor the sites. Nor will it reveal the size of the operation or the contractors involved. The Defense Department has a similar program, the Joint Web Risk Assessment Cell, but the Army program is apparently the only operation that monitors nonmilitary sites.

Write Hi to the AWRAC...

TheCigMan
 
So...

I'll put on my magic hat that makes everything 'wonderful' and accept that the Army and/or DoD has 'magic' software that can identify U.S. military personnel and ignore 'civilians'. This 'magic' software allows them to identify a web post and then provide them with personal contact information so the person can 'take down' the information.

I'll take my 'magic' hat off...

Or the government has software that can identify every poster on the web with correlating personal contact information. ie. name, address, phone number, etc.

Mmmm

I think the 'evil government' was pursuing such technology...

I think it was called 'Total Information Awareness'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense, in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying information technology to counter transnational threats to national security. The IAO mission was to "imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness". Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003.

I don't like my magic hat that makes everything 'wonderful'... I miss important information when its on... :)

TheCigMan
 
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