[subego]

NSA reportedly monitored pornography viewed by suspected Islamists - The Washington Post

"The National Security Agency monitored the viewing of online pornography by several people it believed to be Islamist radicals in an effort to acquire information that could be used to discredit them, according to the Huffington Post.

The targets of the monitoring were not believed to be directly involved in terrorist plots. Rather, the agency wanted to damage their reputations because it believed they could lead other Muslims to violent radicalism"


Operation: Unfree Willie

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Operation: Pig's Bris

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Operation: Smear the Queer

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Operation: Spanking the Mullah

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Operation: Have a Seat

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Operation: Onan a Million

[ghporter]

This isn't as far off as it sounds. One rather significantly discussed possibility for hiding messages is steganography. What better way to disguise a message-carrier than to wrap the message up in sleaze? Here's an Ars Technica article on the subject from mid-2012, based on a for-real exploit that al Qaeda used.

Sorry for the buzz kill, but this is something I've personally been concerned about for a long time. Coded messages that are obviously coded aren't that hard for NSA to crack. Finding those messages when they are not obvious is the real problem. Now I believe that the real operational flaw in al Qaeda's use of pr0n is that they depend on rather extremely conservative Muslims for their base, so when you see someone who wants to impose Sharia law on absolutely everyone and who is also surfing the sleaze boards, that's a pretty big tip off, right?

[subego]

As an aside, I'm hoping the NSA will share with us what kind of porn different world leaders are into.

[subego]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

This isn't as far off as it sounds. One rather significantly discussed possibility for hiding messages is steganography. What better way to disguise a message-carrier than to wrap the message up in sleaze? Here's an Ars Technica article on the subject from mid-2012, based on a for-real exploit that al Qaeda used.

Sorry for the buzz kill, but this is something I've personally been concerned about for a long time. Coded messages that are obviously coded aren't that hard for NSA to crack. Finding those messages when they are not obvious is the real problem. Now I believe that the real operational flaw in al Qaeda's use of pr0n is that they depend on rather extremely conservative Muslims for their base, so when you see someone who wants to impose Sharia law on absolutely everyone and who is also surfing the sleaze boards, that's a pretty big tip off, right?

AFAICT, this is unrelated. It's purely for smear purposes.

[subego]

The "hiding coded messages in porn" was used in the movie Spy Games.

It's an odd bird of a movie. On one hand, putting the message in porn was unapologetically an excuse to have lots of T&A.

On the other, it gets actual (pre-9/11) tradecraft right better than any other spy movie I've seen... by like, an order of magnitude.

Spy Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Enough of that!


Operation: ****wadi

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Operation: Jack Off All Trades

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Operation: Rubaiyat One Out

[Shaddim]

Operation: A Fistful of Mullah

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Follow-up Operation: For a Few Sheiks More

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by Shaddim 

Follow-up Operation: For a Few Sheiks More

More than two Sheiks and you're playing with it.

[subego]

Operation: Al Jizzera

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by subego 

Operation: Al Jizzera

eww

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by subego 

The "hiding coded messages in porn" was used in the movie Spy Games.

It's an odd bird of a movie. On one hand, putting the message in porn was unapologetically an excuse to have lots of T&A.

On the other, it gets actual (pre-9/11) tradecraft right better than any other spy movie I've seen... by like, an order of magnitude.

Spy Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of the tasks given to Brad during the film are from a book by an ex-Mossad agent (get a glass of water and stand on the balcony). Can't remember the name or author but its pretty old.

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Operation: Farm Animal Sex

[subego]

As much fun as this is, the fact HuffPo broke it makes me suspicious.