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Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released

posted by martyb on Friday May 08 2015, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the watching-the-watchers dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The resumes of over 27,000 people working in the US intelligence community were revealed in a searchable database created by mining LinkedIn.

Transparency Toolkit said the database, called ICWatch, includes the public resumes of people working for intelligence contractors, the military and intelligence agencies.

The group said the resumes frequently mention secret codewords and surveillance programs.

"These resumes include many details about the names and functions of secret surveillance programs, including previously unknown secret codewords," Transparency Toolkit said.

To create the database, Transparency Toolkit built search software, called LookingGlass, to make it easy to browse the data. Both Looking Glass and the ICWatch data have been released on Github.

I first saw this story on Slashdot, where it is no longer available. [Here it is on Slashdot]. As of this writing, the code used to do the analysis, along with the resulting data, was still available on GitHub.

[Editor's note] These can also be found by following the links on Transparency Toolkit's Tools page.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by pogostix on Friday May 08 2015, @06:00AM

    by pogostix (1696) on Friday May 08 2015, @06:00AM (#180202)

    Do you mean they pulled down a story? Censorship style?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday May 08 2015, @06:04AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday May 08 2015, @06:04AM (#180204) Journal

    Anon got it wrong:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/05/07/032250/linkedin-used-to-create-database-of-27000-us-intelligence-personnel [slashdot.org]
    Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:09AM

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @06:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @06:06AM (#180205)

    I came to ask the same thing. I do know that slashdot (dice?) does quietly delete posts occasionally. Just go check on cached versions when you cant find 'that one interesting but buried post' and every so often I found a discrepancy.

    Are they doing it to entire stories now too?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @06:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @06:10AM (#180206)

    Still there. [slashdot.org]

    Complete with 71 mostly shit posts too. I can't believe how bad the quality is there.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 08 2015, @06:15AM

      by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday May 08 2015, @06:15AM (#180208) Journal

      My favorite is the "draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it" one.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:44AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:44AM (#180267)

      Conversations usually devolve to the lowest common denominator of human intelligence. Its starting to be a problem here too, with modding abuse.

      When every monkey has a keyboard, you cannot expect a conversation. People "talking" to each other, maybe.