CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence

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And the award for “unintentionally funny headline” goes to this story. Could you imagine being the agent in charge of filtering through millions of YouTube videos looking for intelligence?

U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), are looking increasingly online for intelligence; they have become major consumers of social media. "We're looking at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," said Doug Naquin, director of the remarks to the Central Intelligence Retirees' Association last October.
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It should read "CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence" and finds NONE!

Great time waster.
 
^lol


Well, I can see that this would be a great feed for the agencies, but they probably used YouTube as an example, better sites for them would be the smaller video sites catering to war and politics, such as liveleak.com
 
start making those fake spy videos people!
 
Does that mean they're looking for smart people that made videos to hire them?
 
I'm sure there's tons of valuable intelligence information hidden underneath the multiple layers of old television shows, WWE entrance themes, car and bike crashes, collegiate-level humor, and comedian skits. Must be one heck of a job to try to sift through all that to find some honestly valuable stuff. Might be fun, for about an hour.
 
[Tripod]MajorPayne;1032031551 said:
I'm sure there's tons of valuable intelligence information hidden underneath the multiple layers of old television shows, WWE entrance themes, car and bike crashes, collegiate-level humor, and comedian skits. Must be one heck of a job to try to sift through all that to find some honestly valuable stuff. Might be fun, for about an hour.
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*If I worked at the CIA*

*Staff meeting to determine which employees would be responsible for which areas*
*Boss: So who wants to specify category to research?*
*Joe: I'll take enthusiast videos"
*Bob: I'll take political sites*
*Me: I got DIBS on Pr0n sites!!!*
 
We've all looked for intelligence on youtube, but none of us have ever found any. ;)
 
Best intelligence I have seen on youtube was an Iraqi using a mortor incorrectly and blowing himself to hell, then some bright spark taking on an M1 tank with an AK47...guess who won?
 
Outamyhead said:
Best intelligence I have seen on youtube was an Iraqi using a mortor incorrectly and blowing himself to hell, then some bright spark taking on an M1 tank with an AK47...guess who won?
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You would be surprised to see how many insurgent posted videos there are. They play some funky music and show Americans being killed by ieds. They even showed a humvee being sniped through the driver's side window. :mad:

Most of the text is Arabic, so who knows what it says. I definitely see this intelligence gathering as necessary.
 
People post everything on the internet, and more specifically, Youtube. It's a good place to gather intelligence believe it or not. There have been quite a few terror plots unraveled due to data mining.
 
It's a good era to be a terrorist. There is no way intelligence services can monitor all the data that is now passing around. E-mail, the millions of forums, craigslist type classfied ads, ebay, video games like WoW or games on private servers like COD4. Then imagine having to decipher Arabic leet speak. Whoa.
 
SelousSizzle said:
It's a good era to be a terrorist. There is no way intelligence services can monitor all the data that is now passing around. E-mail, the millions of forums, craigslist type classfied ads, ebay, video games like WoW or games on private servers like COD4. Then imagine having to decipher Arabic leet speak. Whoa.
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You don't have any idea about the level of data processing the government is cable of. :p
 
My girlfriend should work for them.

Me: Hey honey I found this video! Take a look!
Her: Seen it.
Me: how about this one?
Her: Seen it.
Me: This? It was literally just put up on the front page just now.
Her: Seen it.
Me: -scratches head. Searches for something completely random- How about this?
Her: Seen it.
Me: -finds a stupid music video involving idiots singing way off key and totally tone deaf- THAT!
Her: Seen that too.
Me: -searches for random hot babes in photoshoots-
Her: Seen those too, you pig.
Me: Fuck it. -gives up-
 
lmao.. "I don't have any idea how you'd mount a donkey". :p
 
best job ever. They should probably take a closer look at 2 girls 1 cup. Its filled with useful information about terror plots etc.
 
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