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How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« on: May 28, 2012, 02:36:43 PM »
Homeland Security has released the list of their key words for triggering spying.

How many can you use in a single sentence?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html?ICO=most_read_module
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2012, 02:44:37 PM »
I guess those of us who root for the Mexican Cloud Pork team (Go Cerdonubes!) should be prepared for numerous raids.

Seriously though, why are they setting themselves up for so many false-positives?

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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2012, 04:51:13 PM »
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Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent

What does this mean?  They aren't concerned about people compaining about things, unless the complainers actually plan to do something about it?

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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2012, 05:28:50 PM »
OK.  Who's going to write one sentence including every one of the forbidden words? >:D
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2012, 05:33:09 PM »
OK.  Who's going to write one sentence including every one of the forbidden words? >:D

Impossible in English.   In would have to be in German to make a sentence that long really work.  Ok, I guess it's ok to toss some Farsi and Arabic in there too, just for fun.  =D

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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2012, 08:48:03 PM »
Can't do a single sentence but a paragraph should be doable.  >:D
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2012, 11:19:07 PM »
Just omit the periods and a paragraph becomes a sentence. [popcorn]
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2012, 11:31:42 PM »
I haven't seen it in a while, but there was a spam script that generated grammatically correct gibberish consisting of random strings of verbs, nouns, etc.  Imagine feeding that list of words into a tool like that...  (i just boggled my own mind)
« Last Edit: May 29, 2012, 12:00:11 AM by zxcvbob »
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2012, 11:35:35 PM »
The list is a bit short on verbs.  =|

Too bad that it's some sort of picture, else I would copypaste it  >:D
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2012, 08:46:27 AM »
Seriously though, why are they setting themselves up for so many false-positives?

why worry, they have memory and money to burn.  >:D

it also indicates they must have some type of software that sorts through this for the dangerous phrases rather than just these words.  i wonder how many languages the software can handle?

eta,  the very simplest of code would avoid detection altogether.  is their a provision for gibberish, or long strings of numbers? 
« Last Edit: May 29, 2012, 10:15:24 AM by geronimotwo »
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2012, 09:21:28 AM »
Can the APS mods increase the number of words allowed in our signatures to accomodate this list?   :laugh:
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2012, 10:35:10 AM »
The list is a bit short on verbs.  =|

Which seems a bit odd, considering the whole point is to look for people who intend to do certain things.

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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2012, 11:01:46 AM »
We need to get Bush out of the office, so all this invasion of privacy will finally stop.
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2012, 11:04:03 AM »
We need to get Bush out of the office, so all this invasion of privacy will finally stop.

Really.  You're not very politically aware ... are you?     [tinfoil] :angel: ;)
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2012, 12:59:52 PM »
We need to get Bush out of the office, so all this invasion of privacy will finally stop.

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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2012, 01:09:43 PM »


Yeah, but with fistful its still a coin toss.
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Re: How many words can you use in 1 sentence?
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2012, 03:23:05 PM »
I guess those of us who root for the Mexican Cloud Pork team (Go Cerdonubes!) should be prepared for numerous raids.

Seriously though, why are they setting themselves up for so many false-positives?



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