#NSA Hype Machine - By Shane Harris | Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/31/nsa_hype_machine_snowden_xkeyscore
The #XKeyscore presentation does offer some insights into how the NSA goes about finding suspected #terrorists by their #digital_footprints. In a sort of “how to” guide, it advises analysts to “look for #anomalous_events” among the transactions and records that XKeyscore is scanning. “E.g. someone whose #language is out of place for the region they are in,” "Someone who is using #encryption," and “Someone searching the Web for suspicious stuff.”
