CIA Facebook?
16 08 2007Facebook, the CIA, and You.
January 9th, 2006
Conspiracy Theories: MySpace, Facebook, Amazon
Posted by Richard MacManus @ 2:31 am
Update: see this story in The Independent for more on the MySpace censorship issues.
Meanwhile Jacob Morse investigated Facebook.com and ends up invoking Orwell’s 1984. He discovered a connection with the CIA:
“I’ll say this one more time; I’m not a crackpot, and I don’t go around sniffing for conspiracies. There are simply so many strange connections back to the CIA and intelligence-hungry organizations that it truly has me concerned. Worst case scenario: we could be voluntarily handing over personal information to the government in a clean, searchable format. If there is something to these connections, we have - on our own accord - created an extensive network that Orwell’s Big Brother could have only dreamed of.”
In another part of the blogosphere, Tom Owad managed to find subversives with the help of Amazon Wishlists and Google Maps. He noted an FBI connection:
“This is what’s possible with publicly available information, but imagine if one had access to Amazon’s entire database - which still contains every sale dating back to 1999 by the way. Under Section 251 of the Patriot Act, the FBI can require Amazon to turn over its records, without probable cause, for an “authorized investigation . . . to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.” Amazon is forbidden to disclose that they have turned over any records, so that you would never know that the government is keeping records of your book purchases. And obviously it is quite simple to crossreference this info with data available in other databases.
On a final note, the FBI is now hiring computer scientists to implement a project that sounds very similar to what I just did […]”
blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=95
www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
CIA using Facebook to recruit students
This week, outside the ‘Western bubble’ on campuses around the world…
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
U.S. — The CIA has become the ultimate Facebook creeper.
Wired reports the Central Intelligence Agency is using Facebook.com to recruit new employees for its National Clandestine Service. A CIA spokesperson described Facebook as an invaluable tool.
The CIA’s Facebook page provides an overview of what the NCS wants and a promotional YouTube video.
Any U.S. citizen with a grade-point average over 3.0 can apply.
North Carolina — An e-mail sent from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill incorrectly informed 2,700 applicants they had been accepted to the school.
According to USA Today, the university’s admissions department congratulated 2,700 hopeful freshman on acceptance, even though none had been admitted.
U.K. — Some U.K. college courses now include instruction on how to create viral e-mails. Viral e-mails are pictures and video clips embedded in e-mails that are sent over and over, particularly within offices and among students.
BBC News said the teaching initiative will work with students in art and design courses at schools like Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Central England.
Organizers said they want viral e-mails to be considered legitimate art.
