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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 Geotti on Saturday May 09 2015, @08:34AM

    by Geotti (1146) on Saturday May 09 2015, @08:34AM (#180687) Journal

    So emacs and vi should cover it all then. Good! [goes on to update his cv]

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday May 09 2015, @09:13AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Saturday May 09 2015, @09:13AM (#180695) Homepage
    You were supposed to repsond "for that, there's M-x vi-mode".
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    • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Saturday May 09 2015, @11:27PM

      by Geotti (1146) on Saturday May 09 2015, @11:27PM (#180897) Journal

      I implied that there's M-x make coffee blackjack and hookers, but the HR manager wouldn't know about that. But point taken!